What's on at Air Force Museum of New Zealand
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Latest Exhibition
Tall Tails
Our Tall Tails exhibition features the mounted tails of the C-130 Hercules and P-3 Orion, this new exhibition brings visitors closer to two extraordinary aircraft and the stories they carry. It also highlights the importance of finding a permanent home for them, as the Museum continues to fundraise through the Home for Heroes project.
Tall Tails is on display in our Thérèse Angelo Wing.
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Exhibition
The Mighty Hercules
The Mighty Hercules exhibition is on in the Cochrane Gallery upstairs in our atrium. Come and visit and learn all about this extraordinary aircraft.
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Home for Heroes
Join us in building a forever home for New Zealand’s C-130 Hercules and P-3 Orion – icons of service.
For more than half a century, these legendary aircraft carried our nation’s courage across the world – in peace, crisis, and discovery. Now, they need a home worthy of their legacy, where their stories of service, innovation and humanity will continue to inspire.
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Birthday Parties
Mission: Best birthday ever
Zip up a flight suit, grab your dog tags, and dive into a fully hosted birthday “mission”. From air & sea adventures for preschoolers to rescue and cadet challenges for older children. Our Programmes team runs the activities, the children get awesome photo moments (and party bags), and you can add catering through our café.
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Our Aircraft
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HUEY HOLIDAY: Former RNZAF pilot Tim Costley knows where to head for holiday fun – straight to see a Huey.
The retired Wing Commander and MP for Ōtaki spent 23 years in the RNZAF, flying Airtrainers, Sioux, Iroquois, Texans, and NH90s.
Tim deployed in Afghanistan, East Timor and the Solomon Islands, and served on humanitarian missions in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand.
For Tim, there is one machine to rule them all – the Iroquois.
He has 1837 hours in the Iroquois and he loved everything about flying them.
Once he was back in the office it was hard to get him out!
Tim was on holiday in Ōtautahi Christchurch and wife Emma and daughters Lucy, Becky and Alice were keen to see all the machines he flew.
Thanks for your service, Tim, and for bringing the family to the best holiday destination* in the South Island.
#RNZAF #timcostleymp
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WAAF Fay's Seven Sharp story in case you missed it on Monday. She's 97, our neighbour at Wigram, and thought to be the last of the nintey-niners who travelled from England to serve in the RNZAF. Enjoy!! ... See MoreSee Less
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Our overseas Bristol Freighter outpost is making good progress! Aerospace Bristol, with a colour consultation from us, has chosen traditional RNZAF silver for its restoration of Freighter NZ5911. Looking good! ... See MoreSee Less
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It's terrific Aerospace Bristol are painting the Freighter in RNZAF colour's, One Squadron, I think. Everyone would have understood if they'd painted it to represent an RAF Squadron. Kudos to them.
I remember seeing this dear old bird as a primary kid during a trip to Ardmore. I think that was after the sale to Rhodesia fell through and it was in limbo.
So why have they used grey?