Bill Mannix captured these photos today during his daily walk around the GA aircraft park at Nelson Airport.
The Piper PA-34-200T Turbo Seneca II ZK-TSD c/n 34-8070356 was down from Hamilton.
This was purchased new from Piper Aircraft by the Secretary for the Ministry of Transport, Civil Aviation Division and became ZK-DCQ from 28-10-1980. It was transferred to the Air Transport Division of the Ministry of Transport and then to the Civil Aviation Authority of NZ in August 1992.
It was flicked off to Tom Dick who operated as the Bellview Flight Centre out of Christchurch from 08-08-1993.
Less than a month later it was registered from the CAA reserved registration block to become ZK-TSD (Tom Dick) on 01-09-1993.
After five further operators it was taken on by Wills Management Structures Ltd of Hamilton in February of 2010.
The Robinson R44 Raven II ZK-ILY c/n 10968 is a product of 2005 and spent its first twelve years in Japan as JA778N2, and following its mandatory twelve year of service rebuild by Heli Maintenance at Christchurch became ZK-ILY on 01-10-2018 with Horizon Helicopters Ltd of Christchurch.
It moved up to Mid West Helicopters (NZ) Ltd of Whanganui from mid March of 2020 and then to current operator, New Zealand Aviation Specialists Ltd of Nelson, from late April of 2022.
