Three Cessna Caravans Air 2 Air.

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Postby Gavin Conroy » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:09 pm

Here are a few photos from the flight with Sounds Air December last year.

Finally got round to posting quite a few of them on my website.
Special thanks to Craig, Andrew, Al Marshall and the other pilots who made this possible.
Took a while to get it together but we got there as everyone got comfortable.

Sure was a great sight from where I was sitting.









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Postby dbcunnz » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:45 pm

Nice shot of the Salt work gavin thumbup1.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:53 pm

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Sounds Air December last year.
Took a while to get it together but we got there as everyone got comfortable.

Just damn lucky its not the temps we have at the moment in Christchurch , Getting comfortable with machinery , understand , requirement - a forklift .... i keep thinking Bro-town .. Getta otta the way you dirty little buggers ! , well not quite , but formation flying .... never done it , but i guess i would slip in position better than the Bro's family car , the forklift ... .
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Postby Anthony » Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:42 pm

Awesome pictures again Gavin. I really like the second and third ones.
Never really looked too much at the Caravan, it's quite sharp looking though. The Soundsair livery is nice even if it is a bit basic.
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Postby Njbb1995 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:29 pm

Very nice Gavin!!
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Postby AlisterC » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:25 pm

Very nice. I bet they had a lot of fun flying this as well biggrin.gif
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Postby howick » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:45 am

How many Caravans do they have in total? The recent jp airline fleets lists only 'SAA and 'PDM as current?
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Postby Daniel » Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:32 am

Nice pictures Gavin thumbup1.gif Must have been pretty pricey running 3 PT6s cool.gif
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Postby Naki » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:23 am

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How many Caravans do they have in total? The recent jp airline fleets lists only 'SAA and 'PDM as current?


Its out of date they now have three (since early this year if I recall correctly) as pictured here
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Postby Njbb1995 » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:28 am

Who owns the Caravan (I think) with the green tail I have been seeing around here alot?
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Postby beaufighterguy » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:39 am

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Who owns the Caravan (I think) with the green tail I have been seeing around here alot?

Are you thinking of the Air 2 there ones?

Btw some awesome shots you have got there Gavin. smile.gif
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Postby Njbb1995 » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:01 pm

Oh yes thats right
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Postby ardypilot » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:25 pm

Love the C208 - there's a shiny American reg'd Grand Caravan in maintenance at Ardmore at the mo. Don't know the background on it but apparently it's 20 years old!

EDIT: Found pic here.
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:39 pm

Sounds Air operate the three aircraft in the picture.
ZK-TZR is the latest and was purchased late last year and the picture below was taken a couple of days before the paint work was changed.

We set up this flight the day after the Christmas party when all three were at Omaka.
Set up a route to fly so the aircraft wouldnt be taken too far out of the way but provide a nice back drop and the results were very pleasing.



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