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Royal New Zealand Air Force

An RNZAF P-8A Poseidon at RNZAF Base Ohakea. RNZAF's Poseidon fleet is now operational, taking over the role carried out by P-3 Orions for the past 57 years. RNZDF photo supplied.
New Zealand News 

New Zealand’s P-8A Poseidon fleet now operational

01/07/202330/06/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2253 Views 0 Comments P-8A Poseidon, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

After four years preparing to operate and maintain the new Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H flys over RNZAF Base Ohakea during Tactical Exercise 22. RNZAF photo.
Asia New Zealand News 

Kiwi and Singapore Herc crews conduct low-flying nav ex

06/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2017 Views 0 Comments Republic of Singapore Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The Royal New Zealand Air Force is conducting Tactical Exercise 22 (TACEX 22) from RNZAF Base Ohakea in the Manawatū

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Chief of Defence Force Air Marshal Kevin Short, right, shakes hands with new Chief of Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Clark, with outgoing Chief of Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Tony Davies centre, at the change of command ceremony in Auckland today. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas 

Royal New Zealand Air Force gets new chief

07/09/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3943 Views 0 Comments Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand’s new Chief of Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Clark was installed at a Change of Command ceremony at Royal New Zealand

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules delivers supplies for coalition troops based at Iraq’s Camp Taji. Photo by Corporal Anita Gill.
Middle East New Zealand News Operations Videos 

Kiwis clock Middle East air-support milestone

13/08/201813/08/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3149 Views 0 Comments New Zealand Defence Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force’s air transport team has flown about 200 tonnes of supplies and 1000 troops across the

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An artist's impression of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon. NZDF image.
New Zealand News Overseas Science & Technology 

New Zealand buying Poseidon

09/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4087 Views 0 Comments Poseidon, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand government has announced it will purchase four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to replace its ageing P-3K2

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Personnel from the New Zealand Army’s 5 Movements Company and the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s No.3 Squadron remove debris from Travers Valley in Nelson Lakes National Park, in support of the Department of Conservation. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas 

NZDF supporting avalanche risk survey

06/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2420 Views 0 Comments New Zealand Army, New Zealand Defence Force, NH90, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force and Ne Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) joined forces recently to survey potential avalanche risks

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Royal New Zealand Air Force loadmaster Sergeant Dave Wood observes start-up procedures on an RNZAF C-130 in the Middle East.
Middle East New Zealand News Operations 

Kiwi air team on the job in Middle East

12/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2699 Views 0 Comments Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand Defence Force’s air transport mission in the Middle East got off to a flying start this week, with

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H(NZ) Hercules ready for departure to the Middle East on an eight-month mission. NZDF photo.
Middle East New Zealand News Operations 

Another Kiwi air-movements team flies to Middle East

02/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2351 Views 0 Comments air transport team, Royal New Zealand Air Force

A New Zealand Defence Force air transport team is heading to the Middle East this week to support coalition operations

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Members of the New Zealand Defence Force maritime surveillance mission in the Middle East. Credit: Australian Defence Force
Middle East New Zealand News Operations 

NZ MINDEF commends Middle East Orion mission

28/03/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3175 Views 0 Comments CMF, Combined Maritime Forces, New Zealand Defence Force, P-3K2 Orion, Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand Defence Minister Ron Mark has commended the work of New Zealand Defence Force personnel in the Middle East

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Survivors from a missing ferry in Kiribati are found in a dinghy – and a Royal New Zealand Air Force crewman prepares to drop emergency supplies to them. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas Pacific 

RNZAF Orion finds seven survivors from missing ferry

28/01/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2900 Views 0 Comments Kiribati, P-3K2 Orion, Royal New Zealand Air Force

A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion sent to look for a missing ferry off Kiribati with 50 people on

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Seized parcels of heroin lay on the flight deck of HMAS Warramunga during an operation in the Western Indian Ocean. Photo by Leading Seaman Tom Gibson.
Australian Middle East New Zealand News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos 

HMAS Warramunga does it again – with new record drug bust

26/01/201812/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4893 Views 0 Comments HMAS Warramunga, P-3K2 Orion, Royal New Zealand Air Force

HMAS Warramunga’s crew has conducted one of the largest drug seizures in Operation Manitou’s history as part of the Australian-led

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A Zodiac from HMNZS Otago, with fisheries officers from New Zealand and Vanuatu, approaches a fishing vessel in the south-west Pacific during Operation Island Chief. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Pacific 

NZDF boarded 26 vessels during Pacific fisheries patrols

10/08/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3296 Views 0 Comments Forum Fisheries Agency, HMNZS Otago, New Zealand Defence Force, NZDF, P-3K2 Orion, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

New Zealand Defence Force personnel located 60 vessels of interest and boarded 26 others in multilateral fisheries patrols conducted recently

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New Zealand Defence Force Hercules contingent in the Middle East. ADF photo.
Middle East New Zealand News Operations 

Kiwi Herc serving well in Middle East

22/06/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3497 Views 0 Comments C-130 Hercules, New Zealand Defence Force, NZDF, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) transported 120 tonnes of supplies and about 500 military personnel supporting coalition operations in

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A New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas 

New Zealand clips NH90’s wings after emergency landing

20/04/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5795 Views 0 Comments NH90, RNZAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force

NZDF file photo The New Zealand Defence Force has put severe restrictions on all its NH90 helicopters after one was forced to

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P-3 Orion leaves Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Whenuapai on it's way to conduct maritime security opperations in the Middle East. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Operations 

RNZAF sends Orion to Middle East

10/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4539 Views 0 Comments P-3K2 Orion, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force sent a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion surveillance aircraft this morning to the

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Squadron Leader Rob Visser, an RNZAF doctor, attends to Robin Kane after being lost in New Zealand's Kaimanawa ranges for two nights. RNZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas 

Hunter lost for 2 nights in NZ wilderness found by RNZAF

05/12/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4124 Views 0 Comments lost hunter, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The New Zealand Defence Force has found a 60-year-old hunter who had been reported lost in the Kaimanawa Ranges since Saturday evening.

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The Department of Conservation working alongside 5 Movements Company, New Zealand Army, and 3 Sqn, Royal New Zealand Air Force to shift Fell Hut, in the Richmond Ranges to a new site. The hut required moving as it was sitting on a slow moving landslip. 5 Moves company worked alongside DOC to prepare the hut for the shift, which occured by being slung under the NH90 Helicopter.
New Zealand News Overseas 

RNZAF called in for special house removal

03/06/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4523 Views 0 Comments Department of Conservation (DoC), Mount Richmond, Mt Fell, Royal New Zealand Air Force

A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) NH90 medium utility helicopter has shifted a 1700kg Department of Conservation (DoC) hut

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New Zealand News Overseas Science & Technology 

NZDF pilot training enters new era

14/04/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3785 Views 1 Comment pilot training, RNZDF, Royal New Zealand Air Force, T-6C Texan

The new Pilot Training Capability at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea was officially opened today. The new purpose-built

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