• 2023-027.23
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Thomas Welch Horton personal collection. TW Horton, wearing a sidcot suit, standing in front of a Vildebeest. Believed to be at Grassmere landing ground near Blenheim.
    Grassmere
    Vildebeest
    Horton
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    training
  • PR1755
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps cadets prepare to go for a flight in a No. 2 Operational Training Unit Vincent or Vildebeest. RNZAF Station Ohakea. Note drogue towing winch mounted behind rear cockpit.
    Ohakea
    No. 2 Operational Training Unit
    2OTU
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
  • PR1733
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps cadets at physical training. Believed to be RNZAF Station Ohakea. Vickers Vincent or Vildebeeste in the foreground.
    Ohakea
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Training Corps
    ATC
  • 2024-059.1
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Vickers-owned Vildebeest G-ACYV. Unknown location in England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    G-ACYV
  • 2024-059.2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of a Vildebeest prototype. Unknown location in England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    Vildebeest
  • 2024-059.4
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Close up 3/4 front view of a Vildebeest protoype loaded with bombs and a torpedo. Unknown location in England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    Vildebeest
    weapons
  • 2024-059.7
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 front view of Vildebeest prototype N230. Unknown location in England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    N230
    RAF
  • 2024-059.3
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Vildebeest prototype K2771. Unknown location in England.
    K2771
    Vildebeest
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
  • 2024-059.8
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Air to air view of Vildebeest MkIV prototype K4164 in flight over England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    RAF
    K4164
    air to air
  • 2024-059.9
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Air to air view of Vildebeest MkIV prototype K4164 in flight over England.
    K4164
    RAF
    Vildebeest
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    air to air
  • 2024-059.5
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 front view of Vildebeest MkIV prototype K4164 in England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    RAF
    K4164
  • 2024-059.6
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Vildebeest MkIV prototype K4164 at Brooklands, England.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    RAF
    K4164
  • 2003-128.3k
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the MH Lane personal collection. Looking rear inside the stripped fuselage of a Vildebeest or Vincent. Unknown location.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Lane
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
  • 2003-128.3L
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the MH Lane personal collection. Side view of the stripped rear fuselage of a Vildebeest or Vincent. Unknown location.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Lane
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
  • 2003-128.3m
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the MH Lane personal collection. Aerial oblique view of RNZAF Station Hobsonville, from the back of a Vildebeest or Vincent.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Lane
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hobsonville
    oblique
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
  • 2003-128.3n
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the MH Lane personal collection. Stripped rear fuselage of a Vildebeest or Vincent. Unknown location.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Lane
    WW2
    World War Two
    Vildebeest
    Vincent
  • 2003-128.3ai
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the MH Lane personal collection. View through the ring and bead gun sight whilst flying in a Vildebeest or Vincent. Unknown location.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Lane
    World War Two
    WW2
    Vincent
    Vildebeest
  • WgF555
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Copy of a technical drawing showing the fuel system of a Vildebeest. RNZAF Station Wigram.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Vildebeest
    Wigram
  • WgF557
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Copy of a technical drawing showing the fuel system of a Vildebeest. RNZAF Station Wigram.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Vildebeest
    Wigram
  • 1985-021.2a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the TJ Goodhue personal collection. Vildebeest NZ106, from No. 1 Service Flying Training School, after crashing at night at Ashburton aerodrome.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Ashburton
    Vildebeest
    NZ106
    accident
    damage
    No. 1 Service Flying Training School
    1SFTS
  • 2001-044.1m
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Beryl Gliddon personal collection. Two men working on the fuselage of No. 7 Squadron Vildebeest NZ137 after it was damaged by NZ124 in a landing accident at RNZAF Station Waipapakauri.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Gliddon
    No. 7 Squadron
    7 Sqn
    Waipapakauri
    damage
    NZ137
    Vildebeest
  • 1984-273.25LL
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Max Smith personal collection. Close up of part of the wreckage of a Vildebeest (?). Unknown location.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Smith
    Vildebeest
    accident
    damage
  • 1984-074.48
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ron Henry personal collection. Air to air view of a formation of Vildebeests over Christchurch. NZ107 at bottom. Handwritten on the reverse "Vildebeestes [sic] over Christchurch 1939."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Henry
    air to air
    formation
    Christchurch
    Vildebeest
    NZ107
    World War Two
    WW2
  • GisG844
    RNZAF
    Unknown man working on the engine of a Vildebeest at RNZAF Station Harewood.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Harewood
    Vildebeest
  • 2003-220.1j
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arthur Henry Harrison personal collection. Damaged lower main plane of a Vildebeest (?) at RNZAF Station Wigram.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Harrison
    damage
    Wigram
    Vildebeest