Featured Exhibition
P-3 Orion
The exhibition includes a scale model of the aircraft dating back to 1968, and a 13-minute documentary featuring interviews with pilots and crew, and a yachtie rescued by the aircraft back in 1994.
P-3 Orion: The story of an extraordinary aircraft is not to be missed!
Short Talk Series
Bringing history to life using restored World War Two radios
If you’re curious, love history and technology and want to rediscover a whole world of lost skills – this is not to be missed!
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Here’s a brain teaser to get your Tuesday going.
Name the RNZAF base in the picture.
Post your answer in the comments below and we will draw the winner’s name out of our flying helmet on Thursday.
The winner gets an exclusive edition of our Air Force Museum of New Zealand roundel coffee mug.
Who needs Wordle when you've got us?
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The W/Os and SNCO's Mess at Bristol Block, Whenuapai.
Whenuapai but what year?
Base Auckland Whenuapai., I’ve had a few beers in that building.
RNZAF Base Auckland ,Whenuapai
RNZAF Station Whenuapai. Main block. Contained Cpls Club, Ground floor RHS .W/O's SNCOs mess and bar. W/Sncos accommodation, in the top right two story block. Airmen's mess and kitchen. other two story blocks, Airmen's accommodation. Institute/Cinema top Storey. The Chaple was originally situated on the grass area across from the front of the garages top right. the building with the loading ramp, was the Barrack Warden ( then Flt rations) Bldg behind, with brick chimney, was the Airmen's club. ( Dick West used to be the regular barman. Sucking on his old smelly pipe) Lots of memories.
Yes definitely RNZAF Base Whenuapai
RNZAF Whenuapai
Must be Whenuapai as I don't really recognize it and it was one base I didn't serve on.
Audrey's barbers in that building back in the mid to late 60s.
Looks like Whenuapai.
RNZAF Base Auckland Whenuapai Aerodrome. Many youthful visits here when in the ATC as a youngster
WHENUAPAI ..... A few too many letters for Wordle...
That would be Whenuapai.
Whenuapai all those brutalist buildings joined up
Looks like the ESS combined mess building at Whenuapai
Looks like Whenuapai. Went there once as a Sea Cadet
I’ll go with whenuapai methinks
Base Whenuapai
Definitely Whenuapai
RNZAF Whenuapai!
Whenuapai, thats the mess
Whenuapai
RNZAF Base Whenuapai
Whenupai
Whenuapai.
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You guys did an amazing job well done with everyone coming in you did so well
Thay did a fantastic job 👏 congratulations
I love this.
Brilliant work! ✈️
CALLING ALL STATIONS!! You're welcome to come along for a free a trip back in time to the 1940s and the world of military radios this Saturday.
Radio specialist Kelvin Barnsdale will explain the challenges of bringing 80-year-old radios back to life.
If you’re curious, love history and technology and want to rediscover a whole world of lost skills – this is not to be missed!
Kelvin's Short Talk - Bringing history to life using restored World War Two radios - is free and you can tune in at 10am on Saturday May 18 in our theatre.
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My elderly Dad would have loved this but he isn't able to travel. He is 97, and was a radio operator during WW2. He was involved, as a very young private, with Bletchley and Gilnahurk, ending up in Egypt. At the end of the war he joined the Merchant Navy as a radio operator until he ended up here. He's always loved radios.
Have a great morning. Wish I could be there with you.
Sue Hamlett Bob would love this....if he could
Ian Russell
Here’s to all you super mums out there on Mother's Day – thanks to each and every one of you for what you do!!
We don’t have to look far through our collection to find items featuring mums. From the thousands of letters in our archives addressed to ‘Dear Mother’ from far-flung postings around the world, to our 'Stork Air' book for baby arrivals, mentions of mums and motherhood are never far away.
The Stork Book belonged to the Navigational and Air Electronics Training Squadron and contains birth notices and thank you cards from the mums of premature babies who had been helped by Fokker F.27 Friendship medivac flights out of RNZAF Base Wigram.
The Friendship flew many missions to help premature babies – quickly converting into a makeshift mothership with plenty of room aboard for mums and incubators.
To all the mums out there - we hope you all have the most wonderful of days!
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