It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of Brett Emeny, a veritable 'warbird' legend in New Zealand. An active pilot until his last couple of weeks, Brett has unfortunately ....
At the same time that the RNZAF purchased their Bell 47 ‘Sioux’ helicopters in 1965, they also purchased five Bell UH-1D ‘Iroquois’ aircraft. In 1970 these were joined by a further nine UH-1H models, ....
While the de Havilland Caribou prototype initially flew in 1958, the ruggedness and the usefulness of their design enabled the Royal Australian Air Force to continuously operate the type in ....
The "Merchant Enterprise" is an AW-650 Series 222 Argosy aircraft built by the Armstrong Whitworth company at Baginton, near Coventry, England. This unique twin-boomer first flew on 10 March 1965 and ....
From 1953 to 1959, 461 Percival Provosts were built, and of these, 330 were used by the RAF for standard training duties—the Provost replaced the Percival Prentice, which in turn had replaced the ....
The Bell 47 prototype, which had been designed as a reconnaissance and observation aircraft and a training helicopter, first flew in December 1945, and by 1948 over sixty of the type had been ordered ....
The PAC CT-4 Airtrainer is a low-wing single-engine aircraft originally designed by the forerunner of New Zealand's Pacific Aerospace Corporation in the 1970s. Designed as a basic trainer aircraft ....
The HAFU website has recently undergone a major upgrade and transformation, so we're still working through a backlog of articles which need to be updated for the new platform. There will be more here ....
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