• 2013-227.1103
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection. Geothermal power station. Believed to be at Wairakei, near Taupo.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Tarr
    Wairakei
    Taupo
  • 2013-227.1102
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection. Geothermal power station. Believed to be at Wairakei, near Taupo.
    Tarr
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wairakei
    Taupo
  • 2013-227.1101
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Laurence Walter Tarr personal collection. Geothermal power station. Believed to be at Wairakei, near Taupo.
    Tarr
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Wairakei
    Taupo
  • Ak4423-92
    RNZAF
    View of the wreckage of No. 3 Squadron Wasp NZ3904 at Taupo airfield after a tarpaulin became tangled in the main rotor. Both Navy pilots escaped uninjured.
    RNZAF
    Navy
    No. 3 Squadron
    3 Sqn
    Taupo
    accident
    damage
    Wasp
    NZ3904
  • WgG1253-90-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. RNZAF Ensign flying from the flagpole in front of tents and vehicles. Bedford covered truck, Land Rover ambulance, Toyota Land Cruiser and Bedford van in view.
    Ensign
    flag
    training
    Wise Owl
    exercise
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Bedford
    Land Rover
    Toyota
    Land Cruiser
  • WgG1253-91-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. RNZAF Ensign flying from the flagpole in front of tents and vehicles. Bedford covered truck, Land Rover ambulance, Toyota Land Cruiser and Bedford van in view.
    Land Cruiser
    Toyota
    Land Rover
    Bedford
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    training
    Wise Owl
    exercise
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    flag
    Ensign
  • WgG1253-92-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Air trainers on the flight line. L-R: NZ1943, NZ1937, NZ1938, NZ1935.
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    exercise
    Wise Owl
    training
    Airtrainer
    NZ1943
    NZ1937
    NZ1938
    NZ1935
  • WgG1253-124-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown man hitching a trailer of unknown use.
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    exercise
    Wise Owl
    training
  • WgG1253-13-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Aerial oblique view of the camp area.
    training
    Wise Owl
    exercise
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    oblique
  • WgG1253-123-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Morris Minor convertible car parked on the flight line beside Airtrainer NZ1940.
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    exercise
    Wise Owl
    training
    Airtrainer
    NZ1940
    Morris
    Minor
  • WgG1253-11-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Aerial oblique view of the camp area.
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    exercise
    Wise Owl
    training
    oblique
  • WgG1253-122-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown Malaysian pilot plotting on a map.
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    exercise
    Wise Owl
    training
  • WgG1253-12-84
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Aerial oblique view of the camp area.
    training
    Wise Owl
    exercise
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    oblique
  • WgG1253-114-83
    RNZAF
    Trainee Navigator (right) at work in a Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron Friendship during Exercise Wise Owl at Taupo airport. Exercise ran from 26 October to 2 November 1983
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
    training
    Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron
    NATTS
    F27
    Friendship
  • WgG1253-115-83
    RNZAF
    Trainee Navigator (right) at work in a Friendship during Exercise Wise Owl at Taupo airport. Exercise ran from 26 October to 2 November 1983
    exercise
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    Wise Owl
    training
    Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron
    NATTS
    F27
    Friendship
  • WgG1253-135-83
    RNZAF
    Personnel washing the dishes after the final dinner of Exercise Wise Owl at Taupo airport. Exercise ran from 26 October to 2 November 1983
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-134-83
    RNZAF
    Cooks from No. 3 Technical Training School serving the Wigram Base Commander, Group Captain Colin Rudd OBE AFC at the final dinner of Exercise Wise Owl at Taupo airport. Exercise ran from 26 October to 2 November 1983
    Women
    Rudd
    food
    3TTS
    No. 3 Technical Training School
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-133-83
    RNZAF
    Cooks from No. 3 Technical Training School serving guests at the final dinner of Exercise Wise Owl at Taupo airport. Exercise ran from 26 October to 2 November 1983
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    No. 3 Technical Training School
    3TTS
    food
    Women
    exercise
  • WgG1253-209-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown man attaching the refueling hose to a Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron Friendship.
    fuel
    Friendship
    F27
    NATTS
    Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron
    RNZAF
    Taupo
    Wise Owl
    exercise
  • WgG1253-210-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown man beside a refueling tanker with the hose attached to a Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron Friendship.
    Bedford
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    fuel
    Friendship
    F27
    NATTS
    Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-214-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown man with a water fire extinguisher preparing to squirt other servicemen among the tents.
    recreation
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-213-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Civil Aviation fire tender spraying foam near the tented camp.
    fire
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-179-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Members of the public queueing to look inside a Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron Friendship.
    F27 Friendship
    NATTS
    Navigation, Air Electronics and Telecommunications Training Squadron
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-180-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown Sergeant giving 'freebees' to members of the public during the exercise open day.
    children
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise
  • WgG1253-178-83
    RNZAF
    Exercise Wise Owl 35 at Taupo airport. Unknown man sitting in Range Rover ambulance '35'.
    medical
    Range Rover
    ambulance
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    Wise Owl
    Taupo
    RNZAF
    exercise