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Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather

November 30, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Grant Newman The hard-working management team running the Wings over Wairarapa (WoW) Air Festival cannot seem to get a break. With previous airshows curtailed owing to COVID-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle, this year the team […]

Bevan Dewes Harvard about to leave Ashburton smaller

Former RNZAF Harvard Under Restoration in Wanaka, New Zealand

July 1, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

Callum Smith’s Twenty24 Ltd. has just begun the restoration of North American Harvard Mk.IIa in Wanaka, New Zealand for Masterton-based warbird pilot, Bevan Dewes. Contstructed for a U.S. Army Air Force’s contract as AT-6C 41-33720 […]

Aermacchi MB-339 – The New Gate Guard at Wanaka

September 29, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

On September 28th in Wanaka, New Zealand, the local community celebrated the region’s long association with warbirds by placing an Ex Royal New Zealand Air Force jet trainer on a pole at the entrance to Wanaka Airport. […]

Catalina PBY 5A ZK PBY over Lake Wanaka during the 2010 Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina a Definite Maybe for Warbirds Over Wanaka 2014

June 19, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

One of the crowd favorites at the biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow, held in even-numbered years in Wanaka, New Zealand, is hoped to return to the event in 2014. Last attending the 2010 show, […]

Ex-RNZAF Avenger Gifted to Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society

June 10, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

An ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Grumman TBF-1 Avenger aircraft that the Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society (GAPS) of Gisborne, New Zealand been looking after for the past 14 years has just been officially gifted […]

Air Show Report: Warbirds Over the Beach 2013

May 23, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 7

The aerial display portion of Warbirds Over the Beach 2013 was severely hampered by bad weather. While we surely would have liked to be able to see the full program, having travelled a fair distance […]

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Historic World War II Dambusters Raid

May 17, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The night of May 16-17th, 1943 saw the execution of Operation Chastise, better known as the Dambuster Raid, the culmination of a year and a half of hard work, developing and testing an innovative new […]

World’s Only Flying Mosquito Flew Today!

May 7, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 61

Regular readers of Warbirds News know we’ve been following the progress of Jerry Yagen and the Military Aviation Museum’s de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, from its shipment from New Zealand to the announcement of its first […]

Short Brothers Flying Boats Make a Splash at New Zealand Museum

May 3, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 11

The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), located in Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand has recently gotten it’s massive Short S.45 Solent 4 ZK-AMO “Aranui” under cover in it’s new 32,000 square foot Aviation Display […]

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather

Former RNZAF Harvard Under Restoration in Wanaka, New Zealand

Aermacchi MB-339 – The New Gate Guard at Wanaka

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina a Definite Maybe for Warbirds Over Wanaka 2014

Ex-RNZAF Avenger Gifted to Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society

Air Show Report: Warbirds Over the Beach 2013

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the Historic World War II Dambusters Raid

World’s Only Flying Mosquito Flew Today!

Short Brothers Flying Boats Make a Splash at New Zealand Museum

The CAF Razorback Wing Takes on Vultee BT-13 Restoration Project

How America’s Youth is Rebuilding a WWII B-25 Bomber

The National Naval Aviation Museum Birdcage Corsair Goes on Display

A Chat with Vulture’s Row Aviation Owner Chuck Wahl