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David Bates

Find articles written by David Bates using the links below. Articles are listed in descending order of publication

Sportaves 2000 - Matamata 11-13 March 2000

April 2000
Report And Photographs By Dave Bates.
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Great Plains Fly-In

March 1999
Dave Bates Report And Photographs
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Airshow Twizel '99

March 1999
Twizel '99 Kicks Off This Year's Airshow Season. Dave Bates Report And Photographs.
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Oshkosh M'Gosh

September 1998
Dave Bates Talks To Michael Wooding About His Trip To One Of Aviation's Meccas
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Tiger Club '98

March 1998
Coverage Of The Annual Fly-In Of New Zealand's Tiger Moth Club. Report And Photographs By
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Sportavex

March 1998
Well Established On The Aviation Calender Is The Biennial Sportaves, Held At Matamata. Dave Bates Reports On The Waitangi Weekend Event
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Tail Of The Cub

June 1997
The Country's Most Youthful Piper Cub By
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Sport Aviation Fly-In

March 1997
Dave Bate Reports On The Annual Get-Together Held In Ashburton.
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F27 Saplex sampler

December 1996-January 1997
By Dave Bates
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Canterbury Aero Club Completes Move

November 1996
By Dave Bates
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C-17, USAF Heavylifter

July 1996
NEW ZEALAND got its first glimpse of the USAF's latest air mobility hardware in May, when McDonnell-Douglas C-17A 94-0068 unexpectedly arrived at Christchurch on the regular USAF Pacific cargo shuttle in place of the usual C-141B Starlifter. The switch came about as a result of the RAAF's 75th Anniversary Airshow at Amberley attracting a large contingent of USAF hardware.
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Southern Auction

May 1996
A Report From The Wanaka Aircraft Auction
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Deep South Helicopters

April 1996
While the intensity of helicopter operations in the Fiordland National Park is much reduced from that of twenty years ago, the area still supports a healthy rotary wing industry. Dave Bates takes a look at two of the operators.
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Sportavex 95

March 1996
Report And Photographs By David Bates
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Friendship Farewell

September 1995

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Saab Story

August 1995
Impressions of the new Saab 2000. LAST MONTH a Saab 2000 operated by Air Marshall Islands made a flying visit to New Zealand and demonstrated its capabilities to Air New Zealand, Air Nelson and Mount Cook Airlines. For those readers who may not be sure of where the Marshall Islands are situated, they are a group of coral atolls 7-8 deg north of the equator, and a watch set to NZST reads exactly the same time in Majuro, capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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Friendship Farewell

August 1995
THREE years to the day after the RNZAF's three F-27's made their final formation flight over Christchurch, NZ2782 took to the air again from Wigram. While its ancestry was still plainly visible in the dark blue cheatline, the tail was now blue with a white stripe, Laoag International Airlines script ran along the forward fuselage and the serial numbers had become RP-05888. After a long and sometimes fraught process, the Air Force has sold the aircraft to the Philippines, and they are about to commence scheduled services in that country.
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Auster Recoveres Old Glory

July 1995
BACK in the air again is our only remaining airworthy Mark V Auster, ZK-AVH. At least two others, with their original Lycoming engine still fitted, are stored in Canterbury and Auckland. A genuine warbird, ZK-AVH was built as TJ342 in 1944 and taken on charge by the RAF on 30 December of that year
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ATR Try Again

July 1995
MOUNT COOK Airline, and to a lesser extent Air Nelson, continue to be seen as a lucrative prize by order-starved airliner manufacturers. The fact that these airlines recently sent a high-ranking technical team on a three-week tour of the potential producers of a replacement for the HS748/Saab 340 has no doubt fuelled the fires. Mt Cook have been wooed with the BAe ATP (1991), ATR-42(1992), Canadair RV(1993) and the DHC-8-400 earlier this year, while a Saab 2000 demonstration is rumoured to be just around the corner. It was therefore no great surprise to find an ATR-72 scheduled for demonstration during June.
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Mount Cook Engineering

March 1995
THE question of what, when, and if, Mount Cook Airline is going to replace its present fleet of BAe (nee HS nee Avro) 748's has been speculated on many times. What has not been quite so clear, until recently is that the utilisation that the airline has achieved out of the aircraft has put it in a unique position.
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Twenty Five Years and Mach 2 - Concorde

November 1994
Report by Dave Bates
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High Altitude Sampling

May 1994
Dave Bates Reports On The Flights Of The Christchurch-Baser ER-2.
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RJ Demo

May 1993
Dave Bates Samples The Latest Airliner From The Canadian Stable.
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Flying In Papua New Guinea

May 1993

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A Wet Weekend

April 1993
David Bates Reports On The 1993 AACA Fly In.
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RNZAF Ashburton reborn for a day

December 1992-January 1993
Dave Bates reports on Fifty Years On
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ATR Demonstrator

July 1992
David Bates Reports On The First Visit Of Type To New Zealand.
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AACA Fly In - Tauranga '92

April 1992

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Southern Scene

March 1992

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Queenstown Cat

February 1992
Pionair Adventures By
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British Aerospaces' ATP

May 1991
Dave Bates reports on the recent demonstration visit.
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Ashburton aviation museum opened

May 1991

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AACA Mandeville 91

April 1991
Report and photographs by Dave Bates and John King
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RNZAF Sioux: 25 Years Young

November 1990
25 years young
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Progress and profit

July 1990
Air New Zealand's Christchurch engineering base
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Operation ice cube

February 1990

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Christchurch engineering base

June 1989
Dave Bates reports on a growth industry - Air New Zealand's engineering base.
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AACA fly in 89

April 1989
Dave Bates at Taieri
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ABAS album

February-March 1989

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Current scene

April 1988

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Current Scene

December 1987-January 1988

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Southern Upgrade

December 1985-January 1986
Three operators in the South Island acquire new equipment
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Current Scene

September 1985
by Dave Bates.
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A Southern Air Bridge

September 1985
WITH A TURBULENT operational history, peppered with some storms of controversy, the air service between Invercargill and Stewart Island has not had a smooth passage since being relinquished byMount Cook Airlines in 1976. However it would appear that fairer skies are now in prospect.
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Coming in from the Cold

July 1985
VENISON RECOVERY has always operated in the twilight zone of New Zealand aviation — hovering between a respectable and a questionable image. But things are changing and, with tourism seen as the next bonanza for helicopter operations, some surprising transformations are taking place. Dave Bates reports from the Southern Lakes.
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Home safe

June 1985
Ferry pilot Jim York taxis in Cessna 182 N6498 Foxtrot after a flight across the Pacific from the United States - a trip that nearly resulted in more than wet feet. Dave Bates writes of the ferry flight - the only that nearly didn't make it
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Current Scene

September 1983
Aircraft new to New Zealand skies, by Dave Bates.
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WIGRAM WHEELS and WINGS

February 1983
Report by Dave Bates on the launching of the RNZAF Museum's fund raising campaign.
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RNZAF Pageant Album

April 1982

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Photowings

February 1982
The current scene — aircraft and developments new to NZ skies.
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Photo-Wings: Current Scene

October 1981

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Colourwings No. 4: Fletcher Fu24 ZK-DGE

December 1979-January 1980

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Southern Viscounts: Veteran NAC Trio Reunite with Independent

May 1979
IN THE LATE 1950's when New Zealand's National Airways Corporation introduced the first of its Viscounts, they heralded a new era of sophistication, comfort and speed, and put the airline into the sixties with some of the most modem equipment available for short haul routes. Today, twenty years on, three of these aircraft —since withdrawn from NZ service and dispersed around the world — have been sought out and purchased by a UK based independent airline operator.
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South Island Tourist Fliers: Air Safaris & Services

August 1976
Recent aviation history in New Zealand has seen a proliferation of one- and two-aircraft charter companies, many of them arising out of the boom in this country's tourist industry. One such company is Air Safaris &
Services in the South Island, which started from the ambition of one young man to learn to fly and establish his own operation.
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Ice Auster re-enactment

December 1975
 
EVEN the presence of some 25 journalists, photographers and invited guests, complete with whirring and clicking appendages, could not defeat the nostalgia of it all as Mount Cook Airlines' AusterJlB Aiglet ZK-BDX touched down at Darwin Corner on the Tasman Glacier on November 11 to re-enact the first ski-plane landing on a snowfield, just over 20 years ago.

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Mountain Lily Airline

January 1975

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Mountain Lily Airline

December 1974
Mount Cook Airlines, New Zealands second domestic air carrier and by far the country's largest privately-owned airline complany, contnues to gro to meet the increasing tourist traffic within New Zealand. To examine more closely the workings, development and future prospects for the company WINGS correspondent David Bates flew with Mount Cook Airlines over the entire range of its widely varying operations
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