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By FRANK PARKER PHOTOGRAPHY: GAVIN CONROY 20th April 2017

… by wartime ace Al Deere’s nephew Brendon and based at Ohakea.  “In the words of Focke-Wulf chief designer Kurt … Spitfire IX being flown by ex-Red Arrows, and current RNZAF Black Falcons, pilot Sean Perrett. Let’s begin with a … of landing them. The Spitfire lands nicely, 100kt around base with full flap (it’s either up or down) reducing to …

By report: Tom Kaminski 2nd March 2017

… began with the Harvard II at 15 Wing/Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on June 12, 2000 and the … the T-6C in response to the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF)’s Pilot Training Capability (PTC) project. On January … aircraft and simulators will be stationed at RNZAF Base Ohakea, where they will replace the existing fleet of Pacific …

By GRAHAM PITCHFOR 23rd February 2017

… Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF). After a rest during a brief maintenance period, the … Eventually, McKinley was given permission to head for his base at Shawbury arriving 71½ hours after leaving Australia. … a track of 2,873 miles at 20,000ft to the RNZAF base at Ohakea on New Zealand’s North Island. It arrived 59 hours, 50 …

By PETER R. ARNOLD 12th January 2017

… for air gunnery duties at the Air Observation School at Ohakea from December 1939 to January 1940 before going to No … transferred to No 1 Operational Training Unit at the same base in April 1943 for drogue towing before being reduced to … Don Subritzky with a Baffin control wheel donated by an RNZAF technician. From the outset Steve Subritzky made no …

By GAVIN CONROY 29th December 2016

… the time came to fly another ‘Mossie’. The No 75 Squadron, RNZAF markings with serial NZ2337 were only worn during the … was NZ2337, a Mosquito FBVI destroyed in a hangar fire at Ohakea in June 1950. Its code letters were YC-F, which, when … knees as you enter the cockpit. By pulling a pin on the base of the right-hand side control column you can decouple …