Image from the JSA Sheard personal collection.
Four aircraft parked on the airfield at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Handwritten on the reverse "A Flight out for an airing."
L-R: Grebe NZ501, Tomtit '50', Avro 626, Tomtit '53'.
New Zealand Permanent Air Force aircraft lined up on the airfield at Wigram Aerodrome.
Back: Bristol Fighters, Gloster Grebes.
Front; Avro 504k, Dh50a, Dh4.
Joins with WgF23 to form a panorama.
Original RNZAF negative broken.
Image from the Albert H Wood personal collection.
'Snowy' Burrell working on an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine, from a Grebe, on the fixed test bench at Wigram Aerodrome.
Handwritten on the reverse "Snowy Burrell | Wigram test bench"
Image from the Ethyl Douthett personal collection.
New Zealand Permanent Air Force aircraft on the airfield at Wigram Aerodrome with members of the public looking on at right.
L-R: Bristol Fighter, Dh50, Grebe.
Image from the Ronald William Gair personal collection.
3/4 front view of Grebe NZ501 at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Handwritten on the album page "R.N.Z.A.F. Aircraft. 1938."
Image from the Maxwell Moore Skilton personal collection.
Two servicemen with Grebe NZ501 at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Handwritten on the reverse "Glouchester [sic] 'Grebe' " and "Max & Bill Foster | Wigram 1936."
Image from the Foster personal album.
"Gloster Grebe".
Side side view of Gloster Grebe NZ502 on the ground outside a hangar at RNZAF Station Wigram.
NZ502 was based at Wigram from 1937 until 1938, when it was transferred to Hobsonville as instructional airframe INST3.
Image from the Foster personal album.
"W.A. Foster. February., 1935., Grebes., Tomtits.,"
General view of line up of aircraft at RNZAF Station Wigram on the grass in front of hangars.
L-R: three Hawker Tomtits and Gloster Grebes NZ502 and NZ501 (foreground).
There are two Bristol F.2bs at extreme right.
Image from the Foster personal collection.
"Gloster 'Grebe'".
Side view of Gloster Grebe NZ502 on the ground at RNZAF Station Wigram.
The nose of a Dh60 Moth is visible behind the Grebe.
Gloster Grebe NZ502 was based at Wigram from 1937 until November 1938, when it was sent to Hobsonville as instructional airframe INST3.
Image from the Foster personal album.
"Tomtit [sic] nb, Hucks starter".
Line up of two Bristol Fighters and a Gloster Grebe on the grass outside hangars at RNZAF Station Wigram.
A Hucks starter is hitched to the propeller boss of the centre Bristol Fighter.
RNZAF aircraft lined up at Rongotai airfield for the 1938 Air Pageant.
Aircraft include Gloster Grebe (NZ502), Avro 626 (NZ204), Blackburn Baffin, Fairey Gordon, Vickers Vildebeest.
Group of students gathered around a wing with the fabric removed at the Technical Training School, RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Gloster Grebe in the background.
Aircraft on the airfield at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
L-R: DH60g 870, Fairey 3b S1805, Blackburn Baffin S1554, Gloster Grebe NZ502.
"This was just after the last two Grebes (NZ501 & NZ502) had been withdrawn from use at Wigram and were transferred to Hobsonville for instructional purposes. The Dh60g Moth at left was Hobsonville's "hack" aircraft until withdrawn from use in early 1939." Note from the back of one print (presumably D.J. Duxbury's comments.)
Image from the James Lloyd Findlay personal album collection.
Line up of aircraft at RNZAF Station Wigram.
Five Vildebeests, two Avro 626s, four Tomtits and one Grebe.
Visible serial numbers (from front); NZ109, NZ105, NZ107, NZ203.
