Another derelict question........

[hairy]

I think I know where the answer to this one will come from...................

Does anyone know the identity of the derelict Bandit (white with a red tail) at Hamilton airport?

[Bruce]

Its ZK-TZL, ex City Jet.... Was that as expected?

[hairy]

No, total bolt from blue right out of left field. ;D

Cheers

[corsair67]

Hairy, are you stalking derelict aircraft? ;D

[Peter Lewis]

I kept my mouth shut.

[Bruce]

Just found some pics in the depths of my hard drive scanned not long after CJ went bust - the first batch are taken by John King as part of a promo photo shoot (air to airs taken from Harvard NZ1052) I hold all the negitives and a few prints of this session, salvaged from a mini-skip when we were clearing out the offices! This was one of the only times during the CJ operational period when all 4 aircraft were in Auckland Together. (although one had only just been painted and had yet to be signed out and another was gounded with a failed starter generator! (Not uncommon...)







This is the complement of flight crew and managment at the time -Paul Webb is in the dark shirt in the centre of the back row (See "Dragons Den") and I'm just in front of him to the right. This is also by John King.

Later, after the fleet grounding, the aircraft were ferried to Hamilton (the following are my photos):


The nearest aircraft is TZL and behind it is KML. We sold the complete fleet to Eagle Air, but neither of these two flew again. KML was in CJ service the longest, and so was hardest hit by the lifed item time correction formula. TZL was always a bit of an oddball, being a later s/n and not standardised. It became the Hamilton Fire training aid.

this is one of the two ex- ansett Bandits, I think it is TZM - note that we had removed the CityJet titles by this stage. TZM and TZN were substantially refurbished and saw several years of Eagle air service. (under different regos)


This is the cockpit of TZM, almost identical to its sister ship TZN, Which I flew up from Wellington on its delivery flight to CityJet(with one of our training captains) giving me some twin turbine, night IFR time in my logbook between my C172 hours!

[phil82]

Here's another City jet. Name the aircraft and location!

And....if you've ever been to Yorkshire you'll get a laugh out of this

[hairy]

Here she is on labour weekend.............

[Dave Homewood]

Crikey, that's in worse condition than the one at Tauwhare Museum. Where exactly is this Bandit situated at Hamilton?

[hairy]

Shes on the south western side of the airport and can be clearly seen when travelling from state highway 3 to mystery Creek and the terminal, but cannot be seen from the terminal (Cambridge ) side because of the row of trees behind her.

[Bruce]

Poor ol 'zulu lima, shes not looking too good Considering the great shape she was on when she arrived in NZ in 1997.