• 2025-081.43
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ivor Simpson Smith personal collection. Informal group of new recruits at the Initial Training Wing at RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Smith
    Initial Training Wing
    ITW
    training
    Rotorua
  • 2025-081.44
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ivor Simpson Smith personal collection. Group. Believed to be recruits at the Initial Training Wing at RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    Smith
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Initial Training Wing
    ITW
    training
    Rotorua
  • GisG980-D4118
    RNZAF
    Aerial oblique view of the Blue Baths, Rotorua.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Rotorua
    Blue Baths
  • PR5665-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown Leading Aircraftman filling out the aircraft task board.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
  • PR5663-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. No. 75 Squadron (?) pilot, Flight Lieutenant McAllister, speaking on a phone while looking at a flying map.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    McAllister
  • PR5664-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown Squadron Leader working on paper work.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
  • PR5662-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Flight Lieutenant Flavall (centre) and other No. 75 Squadron pilots looking at a topographic map.
    Flavall
    Rotorua
    Cartif
    Fitrac
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
  • PR5660-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Airman strapping a No. 75 Squadron pilot into his Vampire cockpit.
    Rotorua
    Cartif
    Fitrac
    RNZAF
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Vampire
    cockpit
  • PR5658-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Photographer, Leading Aircraftman Schroder (left) and a No. 75 Squadron pilot looking at newly processed 16mm cine film from a Vampire.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    Schroder
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
  • PR5659-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Airman and a pilot in the cockpit of a No. 75 Squadron Vampire.
    Cartif
    Fitrac
    RNZAF
    Rotorua
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Vampire
    cockpit
  • PR5657-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
  • PR5655-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown soldier standing guard outside a camouflaged tent and a camouflaged Land Rover MT4080.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    Army
    Land Rover
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    MT4080
  • PR5653-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Cook cutting bacon in the kitchen tent.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    food
  • PR5654-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown airman having a morning shave.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
  • PR5652-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Airmen fueling No. 75 Squadron Vampire NZ5710.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    fuel
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    Vampire
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    NZ5710
  • PR5650-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Airman operating the fuel tanker.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    fuel
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • PR5651-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Airman fueling No. 75 Squadron Vampire NZ5710.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    fuel
    Vampire
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    NZ5710
  • PR5649-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. No. 75 Squadron Vampire NZ5770 being marshaled to a stop with NZ5765 in the background.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    Vampire
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    NZ5770
    NZ5765
  • PR5648-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown Leading Aircraftman working on a Bristol Freighter engine.
    Cartif
    Fitrac
    RNZAF
    Rotorua
    B170
    Freighter
  • PR5647-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Photographer, Leading Aircraftman Schroder leaving the Photographic trailer with some prints.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    Schroder
  • PR5646-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Unknown Leading Aircraftman cleaning kitchen pots.
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    food
  • PR5656-65
    RNZAF
    Exercise Fitrac/Cartif at Rotorua airport. Camp area with No. 75 Squadron Vampires (including NZ5754) in the foreground. In the background is a Dakota, Bristol Freighter, Harvard NZ1015, an Auster and many vehicles..
    RNZAF
    Fitrac
    Cartif
    Rotorua
    No. 75 Squadron
    75 Sqn
    Vampire
    NZ5754
    Dakota
    B170
    Freighter
    Harvard
    NZ1015
  • PR1993
    RNZAF
    Group of trainees at an aircraft identification class. Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    training
    ITW
    Initial Training Wing
    Rotorua
  • PR1994
    RNZAF
    Group of trainees stop-off on their way to a lecture, to view the thermal activity. Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    training
    ITW
    Initial Training Wing
    Rotorua
  • PR1992
    RNZAF
    Trainees marching to lectures at the Initial Training Wing, RNZAF Station Rotorua.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    training
    ITW
    Initial Training Wing
    Rotorua