In last month’s Pacific Wings, Dave Homewood told the story of the first three decades of the Red Checkers - the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s longest serving aerobatic display team. In Part 2 of his article, Dave brings the Red Checkers story up to date. In 1977, the RNZAF retired its Harvards and replaced them with New Zealand designed and ...

As the largest civilian operator of the GAF Nomad twin turboprop aircraft in the world, the New Zealand-based scenic flight company Air Safaris sent a representative to Australia in June to attend the official handover by Boeing of the Nomad’s Type Certificate to its new owner, Gippsland Aeronautics. Air Safaris has worked closely with Boeing Australia’s Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA—previously ...