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Quite a large New Allocations section this issue bolstered by five Air New Zealand Beech 1900D commuters that were ferried from Hamilton, New Zealand, to Bankstown during October for storage prior to sale.

Air New Zealand took delivery of 18 Beech 1900Ds between October 2001 and July 2008 to be operated by Eagle Airways on behalf of Air New Zealand and branded Air New Zealand Link. They were used on ANZ domestic routes where the parent company could not economically use their own Fokker F-27s. During November 2014 ANZ announced that most of these routes were no longer viable and that Eagle Airways would be wound up and the Beech 1900Ds disposed of over a two year period to be replaced by Mount Cook Airline ATR-72s. Seven aircraft have already gone to South Africa, two to Guyana and another two to Myanmar (formerly Burma) with another becoming VH-BFI but since sold in Uganda (see deletions). The remaining six are in storage at Bankstown with five of these now registered OYU, OYV, OYW, OYY and OYZ.