Nzcivair

Over the years there must have been many hundreds of guys who sat in their sheds and dreamed of building their own aircraft.  And a lot of them did just that by joining the Amateur Aircraft Constructors Association (AACA - the fore-runner of SAANZ) and starting on building their aircraft.  Back in those days (the 1960s and 70s) in New Zealand building an aircraft was very reg...

 The latest Cessna 208B Grand Caravan for Merlin Labs NZ Ltd's fleet ZK-MLQ is c/n 208B1035.

I first noted it listed as N421YC with the Cessna Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas and then certified to Station Management Inc of Dallas, Texas on 21-10-2005. Its US registration was cancelled on 21-10-2005 an...

 On this mean chilly Saturday lunchtime, I found these three aircraft on the tie down wire near the Canterbury Aero Club.

Yesterday I posted about Wyn Eggleston's unregistered Birdman TL-1A Birdman with a story about its unhopeful first flight and I asked the question "Can any blog reader add anything to this story?  Did Wyn's Birdman ever fly again?"

Well, we hit the jackpot when Kim Twentyman emailed that he had successfully flown the Birdman several times and he even had a photo of it f...