Some interesting traffic at Nelson

[Dash8captain]

Some different traffic at Nelson Airport a while ago - ZK-ECO was heading to Napier on a charter flight - used most of the runway too!

[Ian Warren]

Dash8Cap , When Ansset operated the 146 into Wanaka 1994 , they flew in , stayed then flew out after the show , i was there Saturday and Sunday and in two different point on the airfield , the Sat he was flying out and rolling start on the turf while getting his bearings on the runway .. the Sunday exhausted as you do get during a show i was at the oppisite end this time in the carpark but right on the piano bar s .. that 146 outta Wanaka used all the runway .... how wide can i spread my arms .. he was close

[ardypilot]

Who was operating ECO? I thought Air National were goneburgers?

[Dash8captain]

QUOTE (Trolly @ May 15 2011,8:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Who was operating ECO? I thought Air National were goneburgers?

Yeah I heard that they were too - because ZK-ECO had some major problem and they almost went bankrupt - that's what I heard anyway - could be wrong. But they are still going, an Air National Jetstream landed in Nelson yesterday.

[SA227]

Air National no longer hold an AOC, you'll probably find it was Vincent popping through Nelson. The whimper jet had some spar issues which took a bit of work to sort out.

[Squawk1200]

I heard Vincent were now operating the Air National Jetstreams?
Were those pics were taken in December 2010?
I marshalled the Whisper onto the gate both times it came to NS, it did two returns from Napier.
The Falcon flew in from LA I believe, had a bunch of teenagers on it who came to do a new years cruise, pretty sure it arrived on Xmas day!

[Dash8captain]

QUOTE (Squawk1200 @ May 16 2011,3:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I heard Vincent were now operating the Air National Jetstreams?
Were those pics were taken in December 2010?
I marshalled the Whisper onto the gate both times it came to NS, it did two returns from Napier.
The Falcon flew in from LA I believe, had a bunch of teenagers on it who came to do a new years cruise, pretty sure it arrived on Xmas day!

Yeah It would have been December 2010

[HamiltonWest]

great photo's Dash Thanks for posting them All V

[HamiltonWest]

QUOTE (SA227 @ May 16 2011,9:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Air National no longer hold an AOC, you'll probably find it was Vincent popping through Nelson. The whimper jet had some spar issues which took a bit of work to sort out.

Vincent add's Air National's Whisper to its fleet
http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com/2011/07/vin...whisper-to.html

[HardCorePawn]

Ahhhh the old "quadrapuff"... 4 furnaces connected by an electrical fault... You know what the Whisper Jet has 4 engines? Because they'd couldn't fit 6 on it!