Aircraft Of The Royal New Zealand Air Force

A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-6 Skyraider from Attack Squadron VA-25 Tigers, Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6), from the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41), carries out a sneak raid over the RAAF Ta Kali airfield, Malta, More

Bristol Beaufighters from Nos. 144 and 254 Squadrons RAF, No. 455 Squadron RAAF and No. 489 Squadron RNZAF attacking German 'M' class minesweepers escorting a convoy off the Dutch coast, north-west of Borkum, w More

Royal New Zealand Air Force de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth trainer aircraft in production in October 1942. De Havilland Aircraft of New Zealand built a 345 Tiger Moths.

Australian and New Zealand servicing crew work on a de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.52 fighter aircraft that has landed after a sortie to get it ready for another mission at the Ta Kali base in Malta. They were More

Ground staff personnel of No. 30 Servicing Unit, Royal New Zealand Air Force, overhauling Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bombers on Green Island, 21 December 1944.

Ground staff personnel of No. 30 Servicing Unit, Royal New Zealand Air Force, overhauling a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber on Green Island, 21 December 1944.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing PB2B-1 Catalina (PA-K) from 6 (Flying Boat) Squadron landing at Tol Anchorage, New Britain, on 5 August 1945. The PB2B-1 was a licence-built Consolidated PBY.

Australian troops of 37/52nd infantry battalion loading their gear from a launch into a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing PB2B-1 Catalina aircraft from No. 6 Squadron at Nantambu, New Britain, 22 August 1945. More

Personnel of No. 16 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force alongside a Douglas C-47 aircraft which flew them from New Zealand to Green Island on 21 December 1944. Identified Personnel are:- Flying Officer C. Der More

Vickers Wellington Mark IAs and ICs of No. 75 (New Zealand) Squadron RAF based at Feltwell, Norfolk (UK), flying in loose formation over the East Anglian countryside in November 1940. The leading aircraft in th More

A Hawker Tempest Mk.V (JN766 "SA-N", foreground) and a Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB ("SA-R") of No. 486 Squadron RNZAF based at Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire (UK), in flight. The Squadron transitioned from the Typhoon t More

Royal New Zealand Air Force Technical Training School, Rongotai, ca 1940 Reference Number: 1/1-021676-G Photographer: William Hall Raine Dry plate glass negative Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library More

A Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless (BuNo 06766, RNZAF serial NZ5034) assigned to the Royal New Zealand Air Force receives the attention of ground personnel on Espiritu Santo, in 1944. This aircraft was one of 27 SBD-4s More

A U.S. Marine Corps Grumman TBF-1 Avenger during a training mission out of Espiritu Santo. A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40 Kittyhawk escort fighter is visible on the right.

Vella Lavella airfield in the solomons on 10 December 1943. Visible U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of Marine fighter squadrons VMF-123 and VMF-124, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats, a Douglas SBD Dauntle More

Bleriot XI 'Britannia', photographed in 1913 - the first New Zealand Military aircraft. Image free of copyright in source; "The History of New Zealand Aviation" - R MacPherson & R Ewing, NZ copyright law app More

One of the RNZAF's last Supermarine Walrus, NZ158, formerly X9512, arrived in Auckland on 30 September 1944 for the Seaplane Training Flight, which operated her from Hobsonville until August 1945 when, with onl More

Walsh Type D. Walsh Brothers Flying Boats were used to train World War I pilots in New Zealand. Image free of copyright in source; "The History of New Zealand Aviation" - R MacPherson & R Ewing, NZ copyrigh More

Short Stirling bomber of No. 75 Squadron RNZAF en route to 26th mission.

No. 14 Squadron RNZAF de Havilland Vampire gate guardian at Ohakea air base in the mid 1980s. It has been removed from this position and restored with a new GRP nose section and will feature in a new Aviation More

The Avro Anson was a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Canadian Air Force and numerous other air forces before, during, and after the Second World War.

In RNZAF service as a pilot trainer for more than three decades the Harvard was first flown in 1937. Known as the Harvard in the British Commonwealth, T-6 Texan in the USAF and SNJ by the US Navy, over 21,000 More

Photograph showing New Zealand aircrew serving with the RAF in No. 485 Squadron RNZAF in front of Supermarine Spitfire MkIX with New Zealand High Commissioner Bill Jordan.

Short Stirling bomber of No. 75 Squadron RNZAF en route to 26th mission.

Vickers Wellington Bombers of the RAF at RAF Stradishall on the 10th of July 1939. Ready to fly to Brussells and Paris as a show of strength from the RAF.