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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 2, 2023 8:01:24 GMT 12
NZ1015 has definitely not flown since, it has not been repaired.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 11:40:45 GMT 12
Zac, your list needs an update re NZ1015 ZK-RNZ. This aircraft suffered an engine failure and belly landed at Ohakea 13 August 2018, and I believe has not flown since. Civil registration is still current. As with much of the Harvard list, her entry was lifted wholesale from Geoff Goodall's Warbirds Directory and has yet to receive attention from me! That's a part of her history I'd have remembered for sure  |
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Post by camtech on Mar 3, 2023 19:12:32 GMT 12
As with any list, they need to be reviewed regularly. Always a good starting point, however.
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Post by ngirl5 on Apr 27, 2023 12:11:15 GMT 12
Beautiful Harvard 66 NZ1066 ZK-ENE ....is in Tairawhiti Gisborne at the moment : ) : ) : ) We have lucked in!! Arrived on the 16th of April and is here for 3 weeks at the Tairawhiti Aviation Museum  This may be the first time it's been here in a year, unless I missed a visit. Which I may have. Some lo fi videos, from my lo fi phone, from Anzac Day <3<3<3<3
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 11, 2023 16:04:49 GMT 12
I think this footage has been on the forum before as I have certainly seen it somewhere years back. But it has some great wartime Harvard footage at Woodbourne. The date is wrong, not 1942, more like 1944 or 45.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 11, 2023 16:06:00 GMT 12
Note NZ1043 features in the film, only one number earlier than Bevan's NZ1044, and in the same bare metal scheme that NZ1044 arrived in the country with in June 1943.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 24, 2023 18:15:53 GMT 12
This photo in the New Zealand Herald on 21st of March 1942 is pretty neat, it shows three Harvards of the Central Flying School of the RNZAF (RNZAF Station Tauranga). It shows not all their Harvards had the red cowls and rudders, at least at this time, only the lead aircraft has it. ADVANCED TRAINING FOR DOMINION AIRMEN: Pictures from a school of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, where pilots are trained as instructors Upper: Modern monoplane trainer aircraft flying in formation. Lower: Pilots ready for a morning lesson.  |
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Post by davidd on May 24, 2023 20:07:02 GMT 12
You are dead right with that date being badly wrong Dave, I would say that is definitely 1945, with the only unit in residence being the Central Flying School (CFS). This would explain the (late model) bare-metal Mk. IIA or III Harvards, with the peculiar code numbers just aft of the wing in the 20 to 30 series (definitely NOT the last two digits of the serial number).
Edit: Also of course, explains the Tigers and Oxfords (probably all CFS), as well as (I think) a P-40 flashing past. However don't think the CFS had a Corsair on strength at this time, although two were with them postwar (by which time CFS had moved to Wigram).
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Post by planewriting on May 24, 2023 22:51:07 GMT 12
Zac - good to see your list of New Zealand Harvards. I thought you had missed NZ1061 but see you have recorded it as NZ1060 but with the notes of NZ1061. What I was really going to say is that two more ex RNZAF Harvards have surfaced and the skeletal remains for them both are at Classic Flyers. I understand that both of them spent time in the Te Kuiti graveyard but somehow escaped. I am working on the source of these leading to their arrival in Tauranga. One of them has traces of the traditional yellow Harvard paint. Camtech and I have searched the first to arrive high and low for evidence of an identity to no avail. The second one has only recently arrived and I have still to have a good look at it. Watch this space!
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Post by The Red Baron on May 25, 2023 7:53:11 GMT 12
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Post by Mustang51 on May 25, 2023 11:07:40 GMT 12
Nice film that............and the P40 and Corsair.....if only in colour...... sighs and walks away.....
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2023 17:23:22 GMT 12
Zac - good to see your list of New Zealand Harvards. I've done a lot of work updating that base and need to reupload, I'm undergoing a housemove at the moment so it may be a wee while. What I was really going to say is that two more ex RNZAF Harvards have surfaced and the skeletal remains for them both are at Classic Flyers. I understand that both of them spent time in the Te Kuiti graveyard but somehow escaped. I am working on the source of these leading to their arrival in Tauranga. One of them has traces of the traditional yellow Harvard paint. Camtech and I have searched the first to arrive high and low for evidence of an identity to no avail. The second one has only recently arrived and I have still to have a good look at it. Watch this space! Ouystanding news!! I'm very eager to hear more. |
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Post by Antonio on May 27, 2023 0:12:37 GMT 12
Great weathering on 91
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Post by tbf2504 on May 27, 2023 9:33:30 GMT 12
NZ1091 would not have looked like that on the line at Wigram, a bunch of "baggies" would have been detailed off to clean her up!!!
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Post by Antonio on Jun 24, 2023 14:42:07 GMT 12
From the AFMoNZ web site from 1950: (cropped) 
WhG1906-50 Two Harvards flying past in formation during the Open Day airshow at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. NZ1010 (top), NZ1017 (bottom). NZ1010: Note the Type B roundel on the port wing (replacement?) along with the Type D fuselage and starboard wing. Silver with yellow trainer bands??? NZ1017: Postwar Type C & C1 roundels. Yellow or natural metal finish?  |
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Post by baz62 on Jun 24, 2023 17:16:45 GMT 12
From the AFMoNZ web site from 1950: (cropped)
WhG1906-50 Two Harvards flying past in formation during the Open Day airshow at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. NZ1010 (top), NZ1017 (bottom). NZ1010: Note the Type B roundel on the port wing (replacement?) along with the Type D fuselage and starboard wing. Silver with yellow trainer bands??? NZ1017: Postwar Type C & C1 roundels. Yellow or natural metal finish? I'm thinking bare metal. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Jun 24, 2023 19:30:31 GMT 12
I agree, bare metal
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Post by planecrazy on Dec 25, 2023 18:16:57 GMT 12
Another old clip from my video tape days, "61" has been in Oz for many years, this clip at a Port Macquarie airshow I'm thinking early 2000's, can anyone date this? When she was ferried across the Tasman.   Out at Temora.    |
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Post by Kereru on Jan 9, 2024 16:17:00 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 9, 2024 16:36:40 GMT 12
These are super photos Colin! I wonder what date that opening was.
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