Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 30, 2008 13:36:43 GMT 12
It was suggested by Shorty and I have also been considering it myself that a database could be compiled of all the RNZAF Exercises throughout history. Sort of in a similar way to me aerobatic teams database I guess.
I'm going to kick off a few here and I hope others will add in lots of details and new entries - we need exercise names, dates, aircraft participants, no. of personnel, venues and any stories or miscellaneous details. As new info is added below I'll update and add to this first post:
RNZAF Exercise Database
Exercise ANZUK
Exercise ANZUK 1972
3rd - 26th Oct 1972
Tengah, Singapore
8 x Skyhawks of No. 75 Sqn
Iroquois and Bristol Freighter from No. 41 Sqn.
Exercise ranged across Singapore and Malaysia with UK and Australian forces
Exercise ADEX
Stands for Air Defence Exercises.
Held anualy by the Integrated Air Defence System in Malaysia
ADEX 92
Followed STARFISH 92 - this exercise finished 25 Sept 1992
8 x No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
2 x No. 5 Squadron Orions
Exercise BATTLEAXE
Exercise BATTLEAXE 89
Waiouru - December 1989
An army exercise with involvement from
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters (fired CRV-7 rockets)
No. 75 Squadron Kahu Skyhawks x 2 (dropped bombs)
Exercise BEAVER
Bi-annual No. 3TTS Exercise, no aircraft, in support of Dunedin Festival
Exercise BEAVER 1- February 1983
Exercise BEAVER 2- February 1984
Exercise BEAVER 3- February 1986
Exercise BEAVER 4- February 1987
Exercise BEAVER 5- February 1990
Tahuna Park Motor Camp, Dunedin
26 3TTS Staff, 53 trainees and 14 other Wigram personnel
Exercise BEAVER 6- 6-16 February 1992
Jubilee Park, Dunedin
3TTS Staff, trainees and other Wigram personnel plus the RNZAF Te Rapa Pipe Band and RNZAF Base Wigram Brass Band
Also air pageant at Momona Airport
Exercise BLACKBIRD
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois winter mountain flying exercise
Exercise BLACKBIRD 1990
RNZAF Dip Flat 19-24 June 1990
Exercise BLACKBIRD 1991
RNZAF Dip Flat 13-23 August 1991
85 personnel
Five x Iroquois
Two x Wasp
One x Sioux
Exercise BLUNTEX
An exercise in which RNZAF Base Auckland personnel deploy to an airfield to erect a camp for the following Exercise Skytrain. Participants then take part in various outdoor activities such as evasion techniques, map and compass reading, bushcraft etc
Exercise BLUNTEX 1
Exercise BLUNTEX 2
Exercise BLUNTEX 3
Taupo - 10-17 Sept 1990
Exercise BLUNTEX
Dip Flat- 15-20 November 1992
For Admin Squadron, Whenuapai
Exercise BULLSEYE
BULLSEYE 92
CDF Trenton, Ontario - 1-10 May 1992
1 x No. 40 Squadron Hercules
Exercise DXM
Exercise FALCONS ROOST
No. 14 Squadron tented camp for pilot training at away field
FALCONS ROOST27
Rotorua
No. 14 Squadron Strimasters
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 1
No. 10 Transport Squadron, NZ Army, tanker
FALCONS ROOST
Tauranga - November 18-27 1991
Four MB-339 Aermacchis
Six Strikemasters
120 personnel
Flt Lt Craig 'Rosco' Tanner killed on 20 November in Strikemaster crash
FALCONS ROOST 30
Hokitika - 31 March - 8 april 1992
Six MB-339 Aermacchis
Four Strikemasters
120 personnel
Exercise Fleet Concetration Period 1/90
Three-nation naval exercise
18 warships and 26 aircraft from RNZAF, RAAF and RCAF
Bay of Plenty to Auckland Harbour - 7-16 February 1990
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters x 5
No. 5 Squadron Orion x 1
RCAF Aurora x 1
RAAF F-111's and F-18's
Learjet and Piper Aztec as target tugs
Exercise GOLDEN FLEECE
Mid January - mid-February 1989
Rangitaiki Airfield and Napier-Taupo region
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 8
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2 and 2 x Boeing 727's
No. 42 Squadron Andovers x 2
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters
RNZAF Tactical Air Control Party (TACP)
4 x AAAC Kiowa Light Observation Helicopters
7800 servicemen involved incl 200 from RNZAF
Exercise HARDTACK
Exercise HARDTACK 1952
Kaitaia - March 1952
No. 75 Squadron mosquitoes
Exercise JOSS STICK
Exercise JUMPEX
Parachute Training and Support Unit exercise
JUMPEX 90
RNZAF Base Whenuapai - approx June 1990
Exercise LAWMAN
CT exercise that includes:
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise LONG TREK TWO
See here
www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Airshow_Display_Teams_14Sqn.htm#LongTrek2
Exercise MODETRAIN/AIRTRAIN
Army exercise involving Iroquois
MODETRAIN/AIRTRAIN 92
Waiouru and Ohakea - 25 Jan-9 Feb 1992
No. 3 Squadron Iroquios
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 42 Squadron Andovers
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
Exercise PEKA PEKA
No. 3 Squadron reverse cycle night vision exercise
Exercise RED OWL
RED OWL 1
RED OWL 2
RED OWL 3
RED OWL 4
RED OWL 5
RED OWL 6
RED OWL 7
RED OWL 8
September 1972
New PlymouthAirport
Tented Camp, 8 x Harvard, 4 x Devon, 68 personnel from Flying Training Wing, (PTS and NATTS) Wigram
Exercise RIMPAC
RIMPAC 78
Hawaii - USS Enterprise
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
Exercise ROTORHEAD
Helicopter exercise
ROTORHEAD 91
Ohakea - 25-30 November 1991
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 4 (six had been intended)
60 personnel
Intended as the first use of night vision goggles in an exercise however installation of the equipment into prototype NZ3812 was not completed. Sorties throughout Manawatu and Waiouru. Badly affected by weather
Exercise SHORTHAUL
Trans Tasman exercise with competition in low level navigation sorties combined with use of drop zones. Ran 1981-84 then 1989-?
SHORTHAUL 1991
Ohakea - 25-30 November 1991
2 x Andovers (three crews)
4 x RAAF Caribou (two each from 35 and 38 Sqns)
No. 38 Squadron won competition by two points
Exercise SKYTRAIN
No. 40 Squadron, No. 42 Squadron, visiting transport aircraft
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1989
Based at Whenuapai - ranged from Kaitaia to Palmerston North
May 1989
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
No. 5 Movements Squadron, RNZCT
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1990
Based at Taupo - from 17 Sept 1990
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
No. 42 Squadron Andovers
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1992
Based at Woodbourne - last two weeks of March 1992
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 1
No. 122 RSAF Hercules x 1
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1992
Based at Ohakea - October 1992
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 2
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 1
Exercise STARFISH
Multi-national exercise involving Five Power Defence Agreemant countries (NZ, Australia, UK, Singapore and Malaysia)
Exercise STARFISH 92
33 ships, 47 aircraft and 3000+ personnel including:
8 x No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
2 x No. 5 Squadron Orions
Followed on from VANGUARD 92, and preceded ADEX 92
Exercise STEEL TALON
3 Squadron Iroquois Tactical exercise.
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE
Australian and NZ exercise where No. 3 Squadron Iroquois go to Australia
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE 1989
Near RAAF Townsville, Australia
80 RNZAF Personnel, 120 NZ Army personnel plus 100's of Australians
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE 2008
October 2008
Four Iroquois transported to Australia aboard an RAAF C-17
Exercise TACEX
A No. 14 Squadron exercise
TACEX 91 - 20-29 August 1991
Mackenzie Country and Tekapo region
5 x Strikemasters
3 x Aermacchi (their first exercise)
Exercise TASMAN CANOPY
An annual trans-Tasman parachute exercise from approx 1985 onwards
TASMAN CANOPY 1991
Based at Whenuapai - May 1991
PTSU personnel plus 45 Australain Army personnel from the Parachute Training School, Nowra
Exercise TROPIC
TROPIC 89
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomons - approx Sept 1989
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
No. 42 Squadron Andover
TROPIC 92
Faleolo Airport, Western Samoa - June 1992
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise TUTOR BOOM
An exercise primarily for students of the RNZAF Command and Staff College Course
Exercise TUTOR BOOM 90
Kaipara Firing Range early November 1990
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks firing air to ground weapons
Exercise VANGUARD
Exercise established 1964 and run annually:
Exercise VANGUARD 1989
RSAF Base Paya Lebar, Singapore
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks lead by Sqn Ldr John Bates
No. 40 Squadron Hercules (one broke down)
No. 6 Squadron RAAF F-111's
No. 3 Squadron RAAF f-18 Hornets
No. 144 and 149 Squadrons RSAF F-5's
No. 143 Squadron RSAF Skyhawks
No. 140 Squadron RSAF Hunters
RMAF Aermacchi 339's
No. 11 and 12 Squadrons RMAF F-5's
RAF VC-10 Tanker x 1
RAN HS-748 x 1
No. 203 Squadron RSAF
Exercise VANGUARD 1991
Malaysia - 15 April - 24 May 1991
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 5 Squadron Orion x 1
Exercise VANGUARD 1992
Korat, Thailand - September 1992
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
RTAF F-16's and F-5 Tiger II's
100+ RNZAF personnel
Exercise WILLOH
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
Exercise WILLOH 89-1
RAAF Williamstown - April 1989
Exercise WISE OWL
Flying Training Wing, (PTS and NATTS) Wigram - Tented Camp
WISE OWL 18 Approx January 1978
Timaru Airport
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS (first Wise Owl with this type)
2 x de Havilland Devon
Sioux
Strikemasters
WISE OWL 50
Dannevirke - November 1989
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
90 personnel including 18 trainee Chefs and Stewards for first time from 3TTS
Some SVAS aircraft visited from Masterton
WISE OWL 56 6-13 November 1991
Taieri Airport
Students from 1/91 pilots course (four students)
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
63 Personnel
WISE OWL 57 April 1992
Nelson
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
WISE OWL ?? - April 1993
Luggate Airport, Wanaka
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
Skyhawks and Strikemasters visited
Exercise WORTEX
Wairarapa Outdoor Pursuits Centre - 16-19 November 1992
For Shelly Bay officers
I'm going to kick off a few here and I hope others will add in lots of details and new entries - we need exercise names, dates, aircraft participants, no. of personnel, venues and any stories or miscellaneous details. As new info is added below I'll update and add to this first post:
RNZAF Exercise Database
Exercise ANZUK
Exercise ANZUK 1972
3rd - 26th Oct 1972
Tengah, Singapore
8 x Skyhawks of No. 75 Sqn
Iroquois and Bristol Freighter from No. 41 Sqn.
Exercise ranged across Singapore and Malaysia with UK and Australian forces
Exercise ADEX
Stands for Air Defence Exercises.
Held anualy by the Integrated Air Defence System in Malaysia
ADEX 92
Followed STARFISH 92 - this exercise finished 25 Sept 1992
8 x No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
2 x No. 5 Squadron Orions
Exercise BATTLEAXE
Exercise BATTLEAXE 89
Waiouru - December 1989
An army exercise with involvement from
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters (fired CRV-7 rockets)
No. 75 Squadron Kahu Skyhawks x 2 (dropped bombs)
Exercise BEAVER
Bi-annual No. 3TTS Exercise, no aircraft, in support of Dunedin Festival
Exercise BEAVER 1- February 1983
Exercise BEAVER 2- February 1984
Exercise BEAVER 3- February 1986
Exercise BEAVER 4- February 1987
Exercise BEAVER 5- February 1990
Tahuna Park Motor Camp, Dunedin
26 3TTS Staff, 53 trainees and 14 other Wigram personnel
Exercise BEAVER 6- 6-16 February 1992
Jubilee Park, Dunedin
3TTS Staff, trainees and other Wigram personnel plus the RNZAF Te Rapa Pipe Band and RNZAF Base Wigram Brass Band
Also air pageant at Momona Airport
Exercise BLACKBIRD
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois winter mountain flying exercise
Exercise BLACKBIRD 1990
RNZAF Dip Flat 19-24 June 1990
Exercise BLACKBIRD 1991
RNZAF Dip Flat 13-23 August 1991
85 personnel
Five x Iroquois
Two x Wasp
One x Sioux
Exercise BLUNTEX
An exercise in which RNZAF Base Auckland personnel deploy to an airfield to erect a camp for the following Exercise Skytrain. Participants then take part in various outdoor activities such as evasion techniques, map and compass reading, bushcraft etc
Exercise BLUNTEX 1
Exercise BLUNTEX 2
Exercise BLUNTEX 3
Taupo - 10-17 Sept 1990
Exercise BLUNTEX
Dip Flat- 15-20 November 1992
For Admin Squadron, Whenuapai
Exercise BULLSEYE
BULLSEYE 92
CDF Trenton, Ontario - 1-10 May 1992
1 x No. 40 Squadron Hercules
Exercise DXM
Exercise FALCONS ROOST
No. 14 Squadron tented camp for pilot training at away field
FALCONS ROOST27
Rotorua
No. 14 Squadron Strimasters
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 1
No. 10 Transport Squadron, NZ Army, tanker
FALCONS ROOST
Tauranga - November 18-27 1991
Four MB-339 Aermacchis
Six Strikemasters
120 personnel
Flt Lt Craig 'Rosco' Tanner killed on 20 November in Strikemaster crash
FALCONS ROOST 30
Hokitika - 31 March - 8 april 1992
Six MB-339 Aermacchis
Four Strikemasters
120 personnel
Exercise Fleet Concetration Period 1/90
Three-nation naval exercise
18 warships and 26 aircraft from RNZAF, RAAF and RCAF
Bay of Plenty to Auckland Harbour - 7-16 February 1990
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters x 5
No. 5 Squadron Orion x 1
RCAF Aurora x 1
RAAF F-111's and F-18's
Learjet and Piper Aztec as target tugs
Exercise GOLDEN FLEECE
Mid January - mid-February 1989
Rangitaiki Airfield and Napier-Taupo region
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 8
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2 and 2 x Boeing 727's
No. 42 Squadron Andovers x 2
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 14 Squadron Strikemasters
RNZAF Tactical Air Control Party (TACP)
4 x AAAC Kiowa Light Observation Helicopters
7800 servicemen involved incl 200 from RNZAF
Exercise HARDTACK
Exercise HARDTACK 1952
Kaitaia - March 1952
No. 75 Squadron mosquitoes
Exercise JOSS STICK
Exercise JUMPEX
Parachute Training and Support Unit exercise
JUMPEX 90
RNZAF Base Whenuapai - approx June 1990
Exercise LAWMAN
CT exercise that includes:
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise LONG TREK TWO
See here
www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Airshow_Display_Teams_14Sqn.htm#LongTrek2
Exercise MODETRAIN/AIRTRAIN
Army exercise involving Iroquois
MODETRAIN/AIRTRAIN 92
Waiouru and Ohakea - 25 Jan-9 Feb 1992
No. 3 Squadron Iroquios
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 42 Squadron Andovers
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
Exercise PEKA PEKA
No. 3 Squadron reverse cycle night vision exercise
Exercise RED OWL
RED OWL 1
RED OWL 2
RED OWL 3
RED OWL 4
RED OWL 5
RED OWL 6
RED OWL 7
RED OWL 8
September 1972
New PlymouthAirport
Tented Camp, 8 x Harvard, 4 x Devon, 68 personnel from Flying Training Wing, (PTS and NATTS) Wigram
Exercise RIMPAC
RIMPAC 78
Hawaii - USS Enterprise
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
Exercise ROTORHEAD
Helicopter exercise
ROTORHEAD 91
Ohakea - 25-30 November 1991
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 4 (six had been intended)
60 personnel
Intended as the first use of night vision goggles in an exercise however installation of the equipment into prototype NZ3812 was not completed. Sorties throughout Manawatu and Waiouru. Badly affected by weather
Exercise SHORTHAUL
Trans Tasman exercise with competition in low level navigation sorties combined with use of drop zones. Ran 1981-84 then 1989-?
SHORTHAUL 1991
Ohakea - 25-30 November 1991
2 x Andovers (three crews)
4 x RAAF Caribou (two each from 35 and 38 Sqns)
No. 38 Squadron won competition by two points
Exercise SKYTRAIN
No. 40 Squadron, No. 42 Squadron, visiting transport aircraft
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1989
Based at Whenuapai - ranged from Kaitaia to Palmerston North
May 1989
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
No. 5 Movements Squadron, RNZCT
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1990
Based at Taupo - from 17 Sept 1990
No. 40 Squadron Hercules
No. 42 Squadron Andovers
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1992
Based at Woodbourne - last two weeks of March 1992
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 1
No. 122 RSAF Hercules x 1
Exercise SKYTRAIN 1992
Based at Ohakea - October 1992
No. 40 Squadron Hercules x 2
No. 42 Squadron Andover x 2
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois x 1
Exercise STARFISH
Multi-national exercise involving Five Power Defence Agreemant countries (NZ, Australia, UK, Singapore and Malaysia)
Exercise STARFISH 92
33 ships, 47 aircraft and 3000+ personnel including:
8 x No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
2 x No. 5 Squadron Orions
Followed on from VANGUARD 92, and preceded ADEX 92
Exercise STEEL TALON
3 Squadron Iroquois Tactical exercise.
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE
Australian and NZ exercise where No. 3 Squadron Iroquois go to Australia
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE 1989
Near RAAF Townsville, Australia
80 RNZAF Personnel, 120 NZ Army personnel plus 100's of Australians
Exercise SWIFT EAGLE 2008
October 2008
Four Iroquois transported to Australia aboard an RAAF C-17
Exercise TACEX
A No. 14 Squadron exercise
TACEX 91 - 20-29 August 1991
Mackenzie Country and Tekapo region
5 x Strikemasters
3 x Aermacchi (their first exercise)
Exercise TASMAN CANOPY
An annual trans-Tasman parachute exercise from approx 1985 onwards
TASMAN CANOPY 1991
Based at Whenuapai - May 1991
PTSU personnel plus 45 Australain Army personnel from the Parachute Training School, Nowra
Exercise TROPIC
TROPIC 89
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomons - approx Sept 1989
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
No. 42 Squadron Andover
TROPIC 92
Faleolo Airport, Western Samoa - June 1992
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois
Exercise TUTOR BOOM
An exercise primarily for students of the RNZAF Command and Staff College Course
Exercise TUTOR BOOM 90
Kaipara Firing Range early November 1990
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks firing air to ground weapons
Exercise VANGUARD
Exercise established 1964 and run annually:
Exercise VANGUARD 1989
RSAF Base Paya Lebar, Singapore
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks lead by Sqn Ldr John Bates
No. 40 Squadron Hercules (one broke down)
No. 6 Squadron RAAF F-111's
No. 3 Squadron RAAF f-18 Hornets
No. 144 and 149 Squadrons RSAF F-5's
No. 143 Squadron RSAF Skyhawks
No. 140 Squadron RSAF Hunters
RMAF Aermacchi 339's
No. 11 and 12 Squadrons RMAF F-5's
RAF VC-10 Tanker x 1
RAN HS-748 x 1
No. 203 Squadron RSAF
Exercise VANGUARD 1991
Malaysia - 15 April - 24 May 1991
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
No. 5 Squadron Orion x 1
Exercise VANGUARD 1992
Korat, Thailand - September 1992
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
RTAF F-16's and F-5 Tiger II's
100+ RNZAF personnel
Exercise WILLOH
No. 75 Squadron Skyhawks
Exercise WILLOH 89-1
RAAF Williamstown - April 1989
Exercise WISE OWL
Flying Training Wing, (PTS and NATTS) Wigram - Tented Camp
WISE OWL 18 Approx January 1978
Timaru Airport
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS (first Wise Owl with this type)
2 x de Havilland Devon
Sioux
Strikemasters
WISE OWL 50
Dannevirke - November 1989
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
90 personnel including 18 trainee Chefs and Stewards for first time from 3TTS
Some SVAS aircraft visited from Masterton
WISE OWL 56 6-13 November 1991
Taieri Airport
Students from 1/91 pilots course (four students)
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
63 Personnel
WISE OWL 57 April 1992
Nelson
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
WISE OWL ?? - April 1993
Luggate Airport, Wanaka
CT/4B Airtrainers of PTS
F-27's from NATTS
Skyhawks and Strikemasters visited
Exercise WORTEX
Wairarapa Outdoor Pursuits Centre - 16-19 November 1992
For Shelly Bay officers