MOTAT Collections - Aircraft

Aircraft

• Aermacchi MB-339CB NZ6466, c/n 6797. One of 18 advanced jet trainers used by the No. 14 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force between 1991 and 2002. RNZAF Base Ohakea, New Zealand. Crew: two, student and instructor Length: 10.97 m (36 ft 0 in) Wingspan: 10.86 m (35 ft 7½ in) Powerplant: 1x Rolls-Royce Viper Mk. 632 turbojet, 4,000 lbf (17.8 kN). Delivered to MOTAT and assembled in public view from 31 July 2012.
• AESL Airtourer 115 ZK-CXU ‘Miss Jacy’ Cliff Tait’s 1969
• Auster J/1B Aiglet ZK-BWH 1947
• Avro Lancaster NX665 1945 RAF Bomber Command Heavy Bomber. WU13 L’Aeronavale (Maritime)
• Beechcraft 18 AT-11-BH Kansan ZK-AHO, c/n 3691, was built for the United States Army Air Forces and allocated the serial 42-37208. It had a date of manufacture of 5 April 1943 and was test flown on 12 April 1943. This flight ended with a wheels up landing at Wichita, Kansas. It was shipped to New Zealand during August 1943 having been sold to the NZ Government for 13,000 pounds. Assembled at Hobsonville and modified by Union Airways for survey duties at Palmerston North. It served well with N Z Aerial Mapping Limited based out of Bridge Pa at Hastings until being withdrawn from use on 31 December 1980. AHO was flown from Hastings to Hobsonville on 19 January 1982 for delivery to the MOTAT. Its registration being cancelled on 16 June 1988.
• Commonwealth Aircraft CA-28 Ceres ZK-BPU 1959 topdresser
• Cessna A188 Agwagon ZK-C00 1966
• Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk composite P-40E based on NZ3039 1942
• De Havilland DH.83C Fox Moth ZK-APT (painted as ZK-AEK) 1947 airliner.
• De Havilland Devon NZ1813 c/n 04396. RNZAF Communications aircraft, which had aerial photographic fittings: Assembled by De Havilland in the United Kingdom for a cost of £31,422 pounds 11 shillings. Ferried from United Kingdom to New Zealand by RNZAF crew and arrived Wigram 13 April 1953. BOC with RNZAF at Wigram on 15 April 1953. Delivered to Ohakea on 22 May 1953. With No.42 Squadron Ohakea by January 1977. Converted to instructional airframe INST216 with No.4 TTS Woodbourne on 13 October 1981. Stored at RNZAF Technical School, Woodbourne. To MOTAT 2010. On display 2012.
• De Havilland Dragon Rapide 1930s airliner (restored)
• De Havilland Tiger Moth 1930s trainer, & 1940s topdresser (restored)
• De Havilland Mosquito FB.40 Bankstown de Havilland Australia factory 1946. RAAF A52-19. Modified to T43 serial number A52-1053. RNZAF 75 Sqn NZ2305 1947. Retired as farm shed prior to recovery.
• De Havilland Vampire FB.9 c/n v1043 1950s jet fighter. 1952 RAF WR202. RNZAF Tengah 1955. Instructional airframe Hobsonville INST171 until 1962 .
• Douglas DC-3 ZK-BQK 1945 airliner. National Airways Corporation.
• Douglas A-4 Skyhawk NZ6206 RNZAF jet fighter. Model A-4K 14089 16/06/1970 Bu157909. First flight from the Douglas Factory at Long Beach on 11 March 1970. Arrived at Auckland aboard the helicopter carrier USS Okinawa (LPH-3) on 17 May 1970 and towed by road to Whenuapai. Test flown at Whenuapai on 25 May 1970 before being ferried to RNZAF No.75 Squadron, Ohakea. To RNZAF No.2 Squadron, Ohakea in 1985. Flown from Ohakea to storage at Woodbourne on 12 December 2002. Dismantled and trucked to MOTAT in Auckland in three major sections . Arrived MOTAT Thursday 27 October 2011 and reassembled in view of the public Friday 28th through Sunday 30 October 2011.
• Everson Gyrocopter 1960s
• Fairey Swordfish 1930s torpedo bomber (replica)
• Fieseler Fi-103 (V-1 flying bomb)
• Fletcher FU-24 ZK-CTZ 1966
• Grumman Avenger TBF-1 NZ2527 1943 torpedo bomber
• Handley Page Hastings C.3 Cockpit section only of NZ5801 1952 RNZAF Military Transport
• Hawker Hurricane 1940s fighter (replica)
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra 10A ZK-BUT (painted as ZK-AFD) 1939 Airliner
• Lockheed Hudson Mk III NZ2031 1941 RNZAF Patrol bomber. Retired as farm shed prior to recovery.
• Lockheed Lodestar ZK-BVE (c/n 2020). 1939 United Airlines, USAAF 1941 BOAC, Spanish Airforce, US civil market as 1954 N9933F, converted for Agricultural topdressing, registered to Fieldair 1957. To Museum of Transport and Technology 1970.
• Lockheed Ventura 1940s NZ4600 (c/n4773) was built as 41-38117 for the USAAF, but was transferred to the RAF as FD665, then finally transferred to RNZAF as NZ4600. Patrol bomber. Retired as farm shed prior to recovery.
• Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea") ZM-AAA 1936 homebuilt
• Miles Gemini ZK-ANT 1947 light twin
• Miles Magister 1940s trainer (restored)
• North American Harvard (AT-6) NZ944 1941
• Transavia PL-12 Airtruk ZK-CVB 1966 Topdresser
• Schneider ESG-31 Grunau Baby II (glider) ZK-GDG 1945
• Short Sunderland Mk V NZ4115 1940s military maritime flying boat. Built 1946 in Sdenham and issued directly to British Overseas Airways Corporation as G-AHJR as a freighter. Returned to RAF in April 1948 as SZ584. Handed over to RNZAF 4 September 1953 becoming NZ4115 Q for Quebec. Handed to MOTAT 25 February 1967.
• Short Solent Mk IV S.45 ZK-AMO Aranui 1949–1960 TEAL flying boat
• Tui Sports 1930s homebuilt (replica/reconstruction utilising original parts?)
• Westland Wasp 1966 helicopter RNZN NZ3909. *** Recently returned to the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum ***