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Aircraft of the Year

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

Voting is now open in the Air Force Museum of New Zealand’s Aircraft of the Year poll. Last year the mighty Lockheed P-3 Orion saw off stiff competition from the McDonnell Douglas TA-4K Skyhawk and the Bell UH-1H Iroquois to take the top prize. You can choose from any aircraft in our collection – so you’ve got plenty of beauties to choose from. Make the most of democracy and have your vote!
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New exhibiton: Insights

Insights

Caldwell Gallery
From delicate pastel and crayon sketches to the brutality of a crash-damaged German bomber engine, Insights offers a tantalising peek at the breadth and depth of our collection. Like many museums, space constraints mean that only a fraction of our one million or so objects can ever be on display. It is a collection containing stories more than 100 years in the making and a source of endless fascination for the team of people who work to catalogue, conserve and care for it.
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Featured Exhibition

P-3 Orion

Located upstairs in our Cochrane Gallery, our Orion exhibition traces the origins and service history of the RNZAF’s fleet of maritime aircraft which performed exceptional service for almost 60 years.

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!

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