What's on at Air Force Museum of New Zealand
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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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Latest Exhibition
Victory!
It is 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
Our Victory exhibition, upstairs in the atrium, marks this significant milestone in world history, and the story of the RNZAF.
Victory includes images and memories of Victory in Europe (VE) Day and Victory over Japan (VJ) Day which have been sourced from photographs, letters, postcards and personal histories in our collection.
Victory includes insights into how Kiwis celebrated, and how they felt.
Many found it difficult to rejoice after so much loss and suffering.
You’re welcome to come along and learn all about the end of World War Two with us.
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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Update
Overseas visitor charge
A $15 entry charge was introduced for all international visitors to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand from 31 March 2025. Tickets available online or from our Welcome Desk on arrival.
The charge is required to cover rising costs and to contribute to our new $20 million extension to house the newest members of our collection – our historic Hercules and Orion aircraft.
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Our Aircraft
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GUESS WHO’S BACK? The year is 1974, David Bowie’s ‘Sorrow’ is number one on the radio, and some eager young recruits joined the RNZAF.
A short 52 years later and the Airman Cadet School and No. 13 New Zealand Certificate of Engineering intakes from Woodbourne were back for a reunion at our museum the other day with their partners and they were looking better than ever.
The class of January 1974 went on, we are reliably told, to form the backbone of RNZAF engineering trades for decades and some are still serving!
Thanks for returning to Wigram and thank you for your service!
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RAG Gordon( RIP)centre row Right end,two in Bart Bartholemew .Back row3rd from left Gerry Bouman.3rd from left front,Raz Malkin
I see Bill Penney and Dereck Malkin in that lot, mind you they went by other names, dont recognize any one else though.
Definitely cream of the crop with that lot. We had a great weekend, thanks to the organizers.
Few old faces in the Sprog school shot, Les Dick front row, is that Bush Saunders in the rear row?? Maybe be wrong and yet another trip to spec savers is on 😜🍻🍻
Great photos should of recreated the very 1st photo of those that remain
A great era
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BABIES ❤ FREIGHTERS! We believe in starting education early at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, and these babies and their mums were interested to learn recently that the Bristol Freighter's Hercules engines were capable of generating an astonishing 1980-horsepower - each!
We followed up by telling the bubs that the bumble-bee shaped Freighter was the backbone of the RNZAF's transport work from the early 1950s until their retirement in the late 1970s.
The babies wre dazzled to learn that our Freighter NZ5903 flew in and out of Saigon during the Vietnam war and completed the very last flight of an RNZAF Freighter when it landed at Wigram in 1978!
If you would like to start your babies on aviation lessons early, we're FREE* and open each day from 9.30am with a comfy cafe for coffee and mum's (or dad's) relaxation time.
Next week is babies love Vampires (de Havilland Vampires - the safe kind).
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I hope the facilities will be able to cope with the influx for Babies Love Kittyhawks! What a great idea, well done team!
DISCO HERCULES: Aaron, a fan of our Lockheed C-130H Hercules (also known as Charles) has put together a tribute song for the aircraft.
Aaron is a child of the 1970s, so he chose a disco format.
Thanks Aaron - beautiful!
You can support the campaign to build our Hercules and Orion a new exhibition space here: airforcemuseum.co.nz/donate/
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May 1999 Solomon Islands
Brilliant 👏
Absolutely spot on, very clever.Well done !!
Awesome
Gold
F.O.D if that flag got away on him.
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