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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 11:00:37 GMT 12
Jerry Yagen's Military Aviation Museum has taken delivery of a Douglas Dauntless recovered from Lake Michigan, and will restore it to fly. Or, the rumour is, someone outside the USA will do the work...  Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr |
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Post by nuuumannn on Mar 7, 2021 11:21:29 GMT 12
Jerry Yagen's Military Aviation Museum has taken delivery of a Douglas Dauntless recovered from Lake Michigan, and will restore it to fly. Or, the rumour is, someone outside the USA will do the work... Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr Hmm, I wonder if he'll allow it to have temporary RNZAF roundels slapped over the US markings... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 14:47:36 GMT 12
Anyone seen any Folland Gnats about the place? A mate sent me a screenshot from a US website which has Gnat T.1 XR987/N7CV as “cancelled, exported to New Zealand”...? She’s due to arrive at Tauranga on November 22, and owner Matt Wilcock said on Facebook she will hopefully be flying Q1 2020. It’s probably smart to start a dedicated thread but, in the meantime, Matt has set up a Facebook group called Gnat In New Zealand where developments can be followed. He said his parents gave him a book for his 7th birthday with Gnats (including XR987!) on the cover and throughout and that it was the birth of a lifelong dream to own and fly a Gnat of his own. Bravo Matt! Now on the register as ZK-RAJ. |
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Post by kiwiwreckdiver on Aug 24, 2021 12:30:34 GMT 12
While on the subject of rumours or crash sites has anyone been the site of Dempseys Corsair in the mud off Ihumatao near the Auckland airport.
I remember my Grandfather telling me During the war as a teen working on a farm in the Manukua area he walking along the beach and kicked a boot , it still had a pilots boot in it.
if anyone has anymore info on this site or any other ww2 crash sites in the Auckland area please get in touch at
think there were x2 P40s that collided over Weeks island not too far from the Corsair accident.
Kiwiwreckdiver@hotmail.co.uk
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Post by Luis 'ᚭᛋᛒᛁᛅᚱᚾ' Rozas on Aug 26, 2021 16:04:20 GMT 12
While on the subject of rumours or crash sites has anyone been the site of Dempseys Corsair in the mud off Ihumatao near the Auckland airport. I remember my Grandfather telling me During the war as a teen working on a farm in the Manukua area he walking along the beach and kicked a boot , it still had a pilots boot in it. if anyone has anymore info on this site or any other ww2 crash sites in the Auckland area please get in touch at think there were x2 P40s that collided over Weeks island not too far from the Corsair accident. Kiwiwreckdiver@hotmail.co.uk Where specifically in Ihumātao? As in the strictest geographical sense Ihumātao (at least partially) incorporates NZAA. I live not too far from there, when this lockdown ends I'd hella go over there and see if anything is around. |
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Rumours!
Aug 26, 2021 20:36:15 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2021 20:36:15 GMT 12
A review of NZDF-Serials it looks like F4U-1D NZ5551:
The P-40s were NZ3034:
And NZ3037:
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Post by Luis 'ᚭᛋᛒᛁᛅᚱᚾ' Rozas on Nov 25, 2021 12:41:06 GMT 12
A little while ago I was talking to someone about aviation relics here in NZ and during that conversation a very fragmented memory came floating from the abyss. All the way back in 2017 I remember hearing or seeing something about someone wishing to bring part of an F-111 to Nelson(?). I've heard nothing of it since then and therefore I'm posting here because I can't verify it necessarily. Therefore I ask: does anyone here know anything about a partially intact F-111 in NZ? It's been playing on my mind as of late and I'd like some closure.
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Post by McFly on Nov 25, 2021 13:08:25 GMT 12
A little while ago I was talking to someone about aviation relics here in NZ and during that conversation a very fragmented memory came floating from the abyss. All the way back in 2017 I remember hearing or seeing something about someone wishing to bring part of an F-111 to Nelson(?). I've heard nothing of it since then and therefore I'm posting here because I can't verify it necessarily. Therefore I ask: does anyone here know anything about a partially intact F-111 in NZ? It's been playing on my mind as of late and I'd like some closure. Here's an F-111 over Nelson...   |
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 25, 2021 13:56:55 GMT 12
Now they were a mean machine..........perfect for what the RAAF needed
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2021 14:07:31 GMT 12
Can't say I've heard that one. Most curious.
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Post by tbf2504 on Nov 25, 2021 14:49:15 GMT 12
The two F111's that crashed in NZ (one in the Hauraki Gulf, the other at Ohakea) were recovered and the "scrap" taken to Australia. The escape pod from the Hauraki Gulf one became a training aid for
the RAAF
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2021 15:15:46 GMT 12
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Post by Luis 'ᚭᛋᛒᛁᛅᚱᚾ' Rozas on Nov 25, 2021 16:01:49 GMT 12
Can't say I've heard that one. Most curious. For clarity: the person who owned the F-111 was emigrating to NZ or at least planning to do so from the States IIRC |
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Post by McFly on Nov 25, 2021 16:13:13 GMT 12
I know where some might be...   |
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Rumours!
Nov 25, 2021 16:13:18 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2021 16:13:18 GMT 12
For clarity: the person who owned the F-111 was emigrating to NZ or at least planning to do so from the States IIRC I was *just* about to post that it would have to be a machine sourced in the US as all the remaining RAAF Cs are spoken for by museums and all the Gs except the Boneyard Wrangler are buried near Ipswich! EDIT: posted before I saw McFly’s photo of the landfill site. |
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Post by McFly on Nov 25, 2021 16:16:28 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 25, 2021 16:32:31 GMT 12
Anyone wishing to bring an F-111 from the USA to New Zealand would have a power of hurt dealing with the US State Department about exporting military equipment. I'd be extremely surprised if it happened.
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Post by saratoga on Nov 25, 2021 17:08:44 GMT 12
I know where some might be... Those planted ones should just about be ready to harvest by now. |
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Nov 25, 2021 17:44:12 GMT 12
Perhaps they were hoping to grow them into B-1s?
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 25, 2021 19:06:35 GMT 12
So sad............
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