This plane originally flew with the Royal New Zealand Air Force and is a beautiful example of a Harvard Mk.IIa
Today as the final flights of the RNZAF C-130 H make their way down this beautiful country, we celebrate their 150,000 flying hours and 60 years of service to this country. Whether it be troops, supplies, humanitarian relief or search and rescue, these amazing aircraft did it. To the ice, desert or tiny atoll, they have been there, sometimes in the same week. When it came to a replacement we just brought the newest model of these veterans.
After a long period of storage, meticulous rebuild, and a successful test program. Brendon Deere and Sean Perrett are now showing off this beautiful example of an RNZAF P-51D Mustang to an adoring public.
We have all heard the saying “luck is when opportunity meets preparation”. Well we had done the prep… then out of the autumn blue sky, descends the Vought FG-1D Corsair. Surprise! No hints, no insider info—just plain luck. That gull-winged beauty struts its stuff, as it lands on the runway. This is it—a shot that’s been on my bucket-list for a while. No ropes, no crowds, just me, the Corsair, and that boundless blue canvas. If we had known we would miss the Mosquito would we have still gone… no. But because we risked it, trusted our guts, in the end we got something better,