Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3803 back at Nelson airport after it suffered engine trouble in the mountains and was flown back by Squadron Leader Hubbard in Iroquois NZ3801.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3801, flown by Squadron Leader Hubbard, carrying Iroquois NZ3803 after the second aircraft suffered engine trouble in the mountains.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3802 on the Empress Ice Shelf, near Mt. Cook, beside the wreckage of Iroquois NZ3803, which crashed there in November 1982.
Original negative WhG919-64-83
Image from the Harry Elrick personal collection.
Ground to air view of No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3803. Believed to be at Hobsonville, RNZAF Base Auckland.
Image from the Harry Elrick personal collection.
Ground to air view of No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3803. Believed to be at Hobsonville, RNZAF Base Auckland.
Image from the Harry Elrick personal collection.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3808 hovering over a smoke marker in the water with Marine Craft W44 in the background. Hobsonville, RNZAF Station Auckland.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3803 hovers while the monsoon bucket suspended beneath is filled with water.
Part of a fire truck at right. Unknown date and location.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3802 hovering over the wreckage of Iroquois NZ3803, preparing to lift off parts of NZ3803 which crashed on the Empress Ice Shelf, near Mt. Cook, in November 1982.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3802 hovering over the wreckage of Iroquois NZ3803, preparing to lift off parts of NZ3803 which crashed on the Empress Ice Shelf, near Mt. Cook, in November 1982.
No. 3 Squadron Iroquois NZ3802 hovering over the wreckage of Iroquois NZ3803, preparing to lift off parts of NZ3803 which crashed on the Empress Ice Shelf, near Mt. Cook, in November 1982.
