sea knight at ardmore

[ARU]

I quickly shot through ardmore today to grab a look at the dc3's new paint scheme, and I saw a sea knight outside I think oceania helicopters.

it had columbia on the side and also i believe a nz fern ?.

i grabbed a shot with my phone, i think it was undergoing Maintenance on the front rotor.

big sucker

[flyjoe180]

Apparently its a Boeing Vertol 107-II owned by Columbia Helicopters, registration ZK-HCW.

[Kereru]

I took this shot of it in Tauranga (home base) 24 June 2004 when it was N6675D



Bob Leask(musice) has some shots of it in Wellington when it was hauling trees out after storm damage.

www1.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N6675D&distinct_entry=true

There is also one taken in 1963!
www1.airliners.net/open.file/0094284/L/

Colin

[flyjoe180]

It's just been doing engine runs down at Oceania Helicopters, what a noise!

[Peter Lewis]

Thanks for the tip-off Aru.
Photo taken today, the aircraft seems a bit smaller than I expected.