Another 25 pics have been uploaded to my photostream. Most of them are of Wellington regulars.

The only new aircraft is the latest addition to the NZ bizjet fleet, as noted by MRC Aviation. ZK-PGA is another Cessna Citation Mustang, seen here undergoing maintenance with Vincent Aviation.

Next up are three close-up studies of Air New Zealand Link’s three types.

Well, strictly speaking, Air Nelson…

…Eagle Airways…

… and Mount Cook Airline.

And finally, now a regular at Wellington and often seen in the circuit is Nanchang CJ6 ZK-JNA. Not only is this visually distinct in the Wellington context, but the sound is quite a pleasurable difference too!

What a happy coincidence it is that at the same time we see some more interesting types at Wellington, the grey clag should finally bugger off for a respectable amount of time. Yes, blue skies for 24 hours now! Well, blue/black of course.

Saturday proved to be just as interesting as Friday. The wind was southerly which meant the RWY16 ILS was in use for most traffic and that happens to go almost directly over our house. Just as we were about to leave, a distinctive sound was heard overhead and we raced to the windows and doors to see a Qantas 767 on approach!

Sure enough it was in the terminal when we arrived and some time later departed. This used to be a common sight at Wellington, with Qantas and Air New Zealand Tasman services mostly operated by 767 aircraft until replaced with the 737-300s.

Also, one of the Gulfstreams that had arrived on Friday, Air National’s ZK-KFB, departed. Such a beautiful aircraft!

We were also treated to a couple of flights of the Nanchang CJ6 now based at Wellington. It arrived shortly after we did and later departed on another, short flight. The departure was made a little interesting with a fairly snappy left bank shortly after lift-off. This is in marked contrast to the usual ‘left of centreline’ drift executed by aircraft in the circuit.

On a slightly more usual note, this Polynesian Blue 737 departed. I far prefer the palm tree on the tail to the writing on Pacific Blue aircraft.

Wellington Helicopters’ Robinson R44 ZK-IDO was also flitting around the place. Here it executes a peppy curved departure from the Aero Club apron.

Of course there was a lot of regular traffic too and I particularly noted these two examples of the Air New Zealand koru design. Note on ZK-NEF the subtle blend from blue to teal and the gentle mottling over the white koru.

Whereas on ZK-NEU, the blue/teal line is harsh and the koru nearly obliterated.

There are 25 new photos in total on the photostream, so go and check them all out.

I took my son out with his bike for the last day of the holidays but just before we got to our first destination the heavens opened. It was a total washout. But seeing as we had planned on heading out to the airport for some lunch, we carried on. What luck!

I had my scanner on and was wondering about the callsign “Charlie 101″ which was clearly an American accent. I figured maybe a bizjet. Whilst trying to figure out how close it was, I heard landing clearance given for callsign “Kilo Foxtrot Bravo”. I knew what that was! It’s the Air National Gulfstream. We leapt out of the car with cameras at the ready.

After hopping back into the car and beginning to listen to the scanner again, we heard that C101 was on a 7 mile final and, via instructions to a following aircraft, that it was also a Gulfstream. We decided to race down to the government hangar for a better shot at it landing.

It was none other than the US Coastguard!

Whilst they were parking the Gulfstream, an RNZAF King Air, callsign “King Air 83″ touched down and taxied up to park directy in front of it. Out of the King Air came some naval personnel who came across and greeted the persons from the Coastguard aircraft. Very shortly afterward it left, bound for points north.

And finally, there were a few slightly-more-interesting-than-usual aircraft including this nice Cessna 152.

There are more photos on the photostream.

Also, if you want to go and see the Coastguard Gulfstream, indications from the radio traffic I heard suggested it would be departing early on Sunday morning.

The title of this post will have meaning to Black Adder fans (hint: series 2) but refers (tenuously) to the fact that yesterday I caught 3 different Airbus A320 colour schemes at Wellington.

I was in town about 14:15 and at a loose end, so thought I’d pop out to the airport and catch the 14:45 Jetstar arrival. Ahem!

So first in was this Star Alliance liveried Air New Zealand aircraft, ZK-OJH.

Next was a standard liveried Air New Zealand bird, ZK-OJG. Is it just me, or is it reasonably common to see fleet aircraft arrive in alphabetical order (reverse in this case)?

And finally, an improvement on last time at a mere 26 minutes late, VH-VQB puts in an appearance for Jetstar.

“And that one?” That’d be this one. Not an Airbus, I grant you, but interesting nonetheless. Belonging to The Wellington Helicopter Company (which I’d never heard of before) is Robinson R44 ‘Clipper II’ ZK-IDO. I wonder how often this gets hired for weddings.

There are another 8 new photos to be found on Flickr including a few other types. Use the link at right, or click on one of the photos above and browse from there.