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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:04 pm
by 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!


















PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 4:20 pm
by 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

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:30 pm
by ardypilot
Who was operating ECO? I thought Air National were goneburgers?

PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:33 pm
by Dash8captain
Trolly wrote:
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.

PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:10 am
by 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.

PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:01 pm
by 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!

PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:02 pm
by Dash8captain
Squawk1200 wrote:
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

PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:21 pm
by HamiltonWest
great photo's Dash Thanks for posting them All V cool.gif

PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:38 am
by HamiltonWest
SA227 wrote:
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

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:31 am
by 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!