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Post by bombarie2912 on Mar 9, 2012 23:04:01 GMT 12
Dear All,
Hope this is in the right forum. Mods please feel free to move to another forum if better suited there. First a little introduction. My name is Arjen and I'm from the Netherlands. My girlfriend and I have recently finished an awesome holiday in New Zealand. We really loved it and situation permitting we will return in the future.
Now to the point. During our holiday we passed by Woodbourne airport. As I'm a spotter we needed to make a stop overthere to have a look at the aircraft. When we were there on February 19, some aircraft were seen which left met some questions which I hope some of you are able to answer.
1) An A4 was towed from the storage area. I hoped to identify it from my pics, but no clear identification was possible. Is it possible to identify the taped off aircraft from outside? and if so, how?
2) In the storage area (A4's) a second Huey was present wrapped in some kind of plastic (the first being the one on the platform in front of the hangars, marked NZ3811). Is this second Huey in storage or up for sale or..... and what is it's id?
3) Next to the A4's and the Huey in the storage area there was an Hercules (C130) parked. Was this just parked here or is this one also stored? And any help on it's Id is also appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Arjen
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2012 11:12:41 GMT 12
If you could upload the pics that would be great  Glad you liked New Zealand and had a good time here! Welcome to the forum  |
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Post by phil on Mar 10, 2012 11:16:29 GMT 12
The Huey is an attrition airframe that has lived at Ground Training Wing for many years. I guess now the fleet is being retired it is no longer needed, and with the purchase of the SH-2Fs and MU-2s for GTW the old aircraft have been parked up outside. As for it's official number I'm not sure. I seem to recall it might have had 3800 painted on it, but I doubt that was an official number.
The Herc, assuming it was one of ours, is probably a LEP conversion aircraft that Safe Air is working on.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 10, 2012 11:27:59 GMT 12
When that training school Iroquois was at Omaka for Classic Fighters 2007 it carried the tail number of just NZ38.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 10, 2012 11:30:18 GMT 12
And additionally NZ3800 is the Iroquois in the Air Force Museum of New Zealand at Wigram.
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Post by phil on Mar 10, 2012 11:33:22 GMT 12
There you go, I knew I'd seen a 3800 somewhere. I pay far less attention to tail number than some do, except when I'm loading something onto them or doing a daily.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 10, 2012 11:53:46 GMT 12
Same here, that is just one that I remember for some reason. The one at Omaka I had to look up in photos.
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Post by bombarie2912 on Mar 14, 2012 2:30:51 GMT 12
Here some pics of the A4 that was pulled across the platform    Also the fuselage of an F27 was noted. Are these the remains of VT-NED??? or is this another fram  Thanks in advance Arjen |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Mar 14, 2012 10:49:34 GMT 12
I think VT-NED was broken up. That fire hulk is the remains of former ZK-NAN which suffered an inadvertent landing gear retraction and was written off.
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Post by oldgunny on Mar 14, 2012 16:30:06 GMT 12
The A4 in the pics is NZ6209, on its way to being disassembled for Warbirds at Ardmore.
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Post by ErrolC on Mar 14, 2012 17:31:14 GMT 12
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Post by bombarie2912 on Mar 14, 2012 20:44:29 GMT 12
Thanks everybody for the help
Grtz
Arjen
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Post by Deane B on Mar 16, 2012 19:11:37 GMT 12
The Iroquois at Woodbourne is Serial number 69-15276. It was one of two attrition frames purchased from AMARC USA in 1995 to replace NZ3813 which had crashed and was written off. The AMARC number was AHXA0510. Both frames from AMARC were stripped and surveyed at Whenuapai in late 95 thru 96 and the other (69-15414) was built as NZ3816. The bare fuselage only (no tailboom or major components) of 69-15276 was then stored at Woodbourne. In the early 2000's when I was at the training school we "borrowed" it and slowly took ownership! The tailboom came from an old cut-away one which was in the skin bay at the school for years as were some of the other parts. A gearbox and other bits came from the ChCh Museum, the remainder of parts slowy aquired as U/S parts were available from the fleet. Around 2002? it was put on truck to Ohakea where the paintshop did some trial stripping and did a full paint - the first I think in the new grey scheme. As has been pointed out the tail number 3800 etc was purely ficticious. It was going to be NZ3869.....purely because of the year of manufacture of course  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 16, 2012 19:54:34 GMT 12
So is this our youngest Iroqouis then in RNZAF inventory?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 16, 2012 20:50:34 GMT 12
So is the one at Woodbourne painted as NZ3800? as I have this as ex-69-15293 and on display at the Wigram museum At Wigram 3Jan2011 |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 16, 2012 21:23:51 GMT 12
When I saw the Woodbourne Iroquois, it had NZ38 on the tail (as seen here on display at Omaka, Easter 2007).  Close Up  |
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Post by saratoga on Mar 16, 2012 21:27:05 GMT 12
isn't the Wigram one a gimme from USArmyE?
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Post by Deane B on Mar 16, 2012 21:42:40 GMT 12
Not sure what the tail number ended up being on the Iroquois at Woodbourne Peter. It might be 3817 even! What ever the case, they are two separate helos.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 16, 2012 22:05:53 GMT 12
Actually, the Ned on the tail of the helicopter in the photo I posted above looks to be crooked. Or does he always lean forward a bit like that?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 16, 2012 22:15:04 GMT 12
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Glad you liked New Zealand and had a good time here! Welcome to the forum 
