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Birthday Parties
Mission: Best birthday ever
Zip up a flight suit, grab your dog tags, and dive into a fully hosted birthday “mission”. From air & sea adventures for preschoolers to rescue and cadet challenges for older children. Our Programmes team runs the activities, the children get awesome photo moments (and party bags), and you can add catering through our café.
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Latest Exhibition
Victory!
It is 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
Our Victory exhibition, upstairs in the atrium, marks this significant milestone in world history, and the story of the RNZAF.
Victory includes images and memories of Victory in Europe (VE) Day and Victory over Japan (VJ) Day which have been sourced from photographs, letters, postcards and personal histories in our collection.
Victory includes insights into how Kiwis celebrated, and how they felt.
Many found it difficult to rejoice after so much loss and suffering.
You’re welcome to come along and learn all about the end of World War Two with us.
Exhibition
The Mighty Hercules
The Mighty Hercules exhibition is on in the Cochrane Gallery upstairs in our atrium. Come and visit and learn all about this extraordinary aircraft.
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Update
Overseas visitor charge
A $15 entry charge was introduced for all international visitors to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand from 31 March 2025. Tickets available online or from our Welcome Desk on arrival.
The charge is required to cover rising costs and to contribute to our new $20 million extension to house the newest members of our collection – our historic Hercules and Orion aircraft.
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Our Aircraft
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ANZAC DAY SERVICE: You and your whānau are invited to join us at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand to commemorate our national day of remembrance.
The service will begin at 12pm, 25 April, 45 Harvard Ave, Wigram.
All welcome.
Our service is indoors and accessible with plenty of seating and onsite parking. A NZSL interpreter will also be present.
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TIGER SEASON EXTENDED: Tiger Moth fans Blake Brian and his grandmother Maggie Horne are among the thousands of visitors who have had their shopping pleasantly interrupted by our Anzac Toger Moth.
And in good news - the Tiger Moth season has been extended at the mall.
The little yellow biplane is the centrepiece of Westfield Riccarton's Anzac display in Christchurch this year, and has proven to be such a hit with shoppers its stay has been extended through to 6 May.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force operated 335 Tiger Moths between 1939 and 1956, and these simple but robust little trainers played helped prepare the more than 7000 Kiwi pilots who headed overseas to fight in World War Two.
The aircraft were in such strong demand that de Havilland set up factories in New Zealand and Australia to build them, making them an Anzac aircraft.
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Got to see it last night!