• MUS95115
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Aerial oblique of RNZAF Station Rukuhia, with aircraft stored on the field, waiting to be sold for scrap.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Rukuhia
    oblique
  • MUS9512031a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    View of the aircraft graveyard at RNZAF Station Rukuhia. Ventura NZ4639 in the foreground and Kittyhawks and Corsairs etc. in the back.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Rukuhia
    Ventura
    NZ4639
  • HamG523
    RNZAF
    Lodestar wing mounted under Dakota NZ3516 for delivery to Norfolk Island, via Whenuapai. RNZAF Station Rukuhia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dakota
    NZ3516
    Rukuhia
  • HamG524
    RNZAF
    Lodestar wing mounted under Dakota NZ3516 for delivery to Norfolk Island, via Whenuapai. RNZAF Station Rukuhia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dakota
    NZ3516
    Rukuhia
  • HamG525
    RNZAF
    Lodestar wing mounted under Dakota NZ3516 for delivery to Norfolk Island, via Whenuapai. RNZAF Station Rukuhia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dakota
    NZ3516
    Rukuhia
  • HamG526
    RNZAF
    Lodestar wing mounted under Dakota NZ3516 for delivery to Norfolk Island, via Whenuapai. RNZAF Station Rukuhia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dakota
    NZ3516
    Rukuhia
  • HamG527
    RNZAF
    Lodestar wing mounted under Dakota NZ3516 for delivery to Norfolk Island, via Whenuapai. RNZAF Station Rukuhia.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dakota
    NZ3516
    Rukuhia
  • DWCorsair20
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Image from the Des White personal collection. Unknown person looking at surplus Corsair aircraft in the aircraft graveyard at Rukuhia aerodrome.
    damage
    Rukuhia
    Corsair
    White
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • DWAsst13
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Image from the Des White personal collection. View along a row of surplus Venturas at Rukuhia aerodrome.
    damage
    Rukuhia
    Ventura
    White
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • DWAsst14
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Image from the Des White personal collection. Aerial oblique view of the surplus aircraft graveyard at Rukuhia aerodrome.
    Rukuhia
    oblique
    White
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • OhG2643-54
    RNZAF
    Aerial oblique view of the Repair and Salvage Unit at Rukuhia Aerodrome.
    RNZAF
    Rukuhia
    oblique
    Repair and Salvage Unit
    RSU
  • MUS9516911
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Kittyhawks and Corsairs in a field at Rukuhia aerodrome, waiting to be scrapped.
    RNZAF
    Kittyhawk
    Corsair
    surplus aircraft
    Rukuhia
  • WhG5256-69
    RNZAF
    3/4 rear view of Bedford mobile engine test bench, number plate EI1040. Rukuhia aerodrome.
    test
    engine
    Bedford
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Rukuhia
  • WhG5257-69
    RNZAF
    3/4 rear view of Bedford mobile engine test bench, number plate EI1040. Rukuhia aerodrome.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Bedford
    engine
    test
    Rukuhia
  • WhG5258-69
    RNZAF
    3/4 front view of Bedford mobile engine test bench, number plate EI1040. Rukuhia aerodrome.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Bedford
    engine
    test
    Rukuhia
  • WhG5259-69
    RNZAF
    Side view of Bedford mobile engine test bench, number plate EI1040. Rukuhia aerodrome.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Bedford
    engine
    test
    Rukuhia
  • WhG5260-69
    RNZAF
    Interior view of the interior of the control cabin on Bedford mobile engine test bench, number plate EI1040. Rukuhia aerodrome.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Bedford
    engine
    test
    Rukuhia
  • DWNZ3147
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Kittyhawk NZ3147, FE-B1, lying derelict in the aircraft graveyard at Rukuhia Aerodrome.
    graveyard
    Rukuhia
    wreck
    NZ3147
    Kittyhawk
    RNZAF
    White