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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 21, 2005 16:47:32 GMT 12
The ex-NAC, ex-Air New Zealand Friendship that had been at Wigram for several years has now moved to Ashburton. See the report here, from New Zealand Aviation News for July 2005...  |
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 2, 2005 10:08:59 GMT 12
What happened to the original RNZAF F-27 Friendships when they were retired? Did any of them stay in NZ?
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Post by Bruce on Aug 2, 2005 13:26:18 GMT 12
As I recall the RNZAF Friendships were all exported to Malaysia. I think the airline was Merpati Nausantara (or something similar) which was a regional subsidary of Malaysian Airlines. As I understand they have since been withdrawn and broken up.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2005 15:02:36 GMT 12
I never knew they'd been broken up. What a shame one wasn't given back to the RNZAF for the museum. Pity. They were excellent aircraft, I worked in the same hangar as they were maintained in and got to see a lot of them. I even flew one of them once which was way cool.
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 16, 2005 18:12:59 GMT 12
Wow, that's been part of Wigram for donkey's years. Glad to see it's not getting broken up  TNZ |
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