• 2020-124.116
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. 3/4 front view of a captured Japanese Mitsubishi Zero. Unknown location.
    Shaw
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • PF52-33-96
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. Low view of a replica Mitsubishi Zero being towed past Harvards on the flight line at dawn.
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka
    air show
    Wanaka
    Harvard
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • MUS100242
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    War prize Mitsubishi Zero (later NZ6000) on the deck of the troopship SS Wahine on the way to New Zealand from the Pacific Islands.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
    SS Wahine
  • DWNZ6000a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Image from the Des White personal collection. Three servicemen looking into the cockpit of Mitsubishi Zero NZ6000 at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
    RNZAF
    White
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
    Hobsonville
  • DWNZ6000b
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Des White
    Image from the Des White personal collection. Side view of Mitsubishi Zero NZ6000 at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    White
    RNZAF
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
    Hobsonville
  • MUS1300830
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 rear view of Mitsubishi Zero under a canvas hangar, Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • 2021-052.9
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Gordon Wadman Hooper Hirst personal collection. Captured Japanese Mitsubishi Zero taxiing at Piva airstrip, Bougainville.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hirst
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    Bougainville
    Piva
  • 2015-268.48
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Alexander MacDonald MacKenzie personal collection. 3/4 rear view of the captured Mitsubishi Zero (NZ6000). Unknown location in New Zealand.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    MacKenzie
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
  • WhG13051-58
    RNZAF
    Fuselage of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero war prize aircraft, dismantled in a hangar at Ardmore airfield. This aircraft is now on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    Ardmore
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • 2021-019.16
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Murray Dayman personal collection. 3/4 front view of a captured Japanese Zero at Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Dayman
    Zero
    Zeke
    Bougainville
    Piva
    Mitsubishi
  • 2014-071.70
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Radar Reunion collection. 3/4 front view of a surrendered Japanese Mitsubishi Zero at Jacquinot Bay. Print credited to HJ Osman. Handwritten on the reverse "Jap "Zero" after V.J. Day. Jacquinot Bay."
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Radar Reunion
    New Britain
    Jacquinot Bay
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • 2018-005.9
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Henry Balfour Hutchinson personal collection. Two airmen looking at the wreckage of a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero (?) on a beach. Believed to be at Guadalcanal.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Hutchinson
    Guadalcanal
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    damage
  • MUS970712
    3/4 high front view of New Zealand war prize Zero, with air force personnel looking over it at Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now at Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Piva
    Bougainville
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • 1991-064.17a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Alan Pawsey personal collection. Captured Mitsubishi Zero taxiing at Piva airstrip, Bougainville. This aircraft was flown from Kara airstrip to Piva by Wing Commander Kofoed and is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Pawsey
    Zero
    Zeke
    Mitsubishi
    Piva
    Bougainville
  • 1991-064.17b
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Alan Pawsey personal collection. Captured Japanese Mitsubishi Zero at Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now in the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    Pawsey
    Piva
    Bougainville
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
  • ALB20084682078
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the IMcF Duncan personal collection. Unknown man standing beside the captured Japanese Zero at Piva, Bougainville. This aircraft is now in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Duncan
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
  • OhG7443-58
    RNZAF
    Japanese war prize aircraft being lifted onto a mount for display at the 21st Anniversary celebrations for the RNZAF. RNZAF Station Ohakea. This Zero aircraft is now on display at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    open day
    NZ6000
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    Ohakea
    RNZAF
    21st Birthday
  • OhG7449-58
    RNZAF
    Crowds of people looking at the displays inside a hangar during the 21st Anniversary celebrations of the RNZAF at RNZAF Station Ohakea. At centre of image is the Japanese Zero war prize, now displayed at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    RNZAF
    Ohakea
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
    open day
    21st Birthday
  • MUS050042
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mitsubishi A6M Zero, NZ6000, at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. NB; Clearly shows the New Zealand serial number and roundels and traces of the original Japanese serial number.
    Hobsonville
    NZ6000
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • MUS970711
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 front view of New Zealand war prize Mitsubishi Zero at Piva, Bougainville. Still painted in surrender colour scheme. This aircraft is now on display in Auckland Museum.
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    Piva
    Bougainville
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • MUS970713
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF personnel looking over the surrendered Mitsubishi Zero at Piva. Still painted in surrender colour scheme. This aircraft is now at Auckland Museum.
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    Piva
    Bougainville
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • MUS9706510
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mitsubishi Zero NZ6000, INST 113, on display at the RNZAF 21st birthday open day at RNZAF Station Ohakea.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Ohakea
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    NZ6000
    INST113
    open day
  • MUS970683
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Still frame from a gun camera film showing a Zero, '53112' being shot down. Apparently a victim of No. 14 Squadron, Ondonga 1943, but there are some questions about this. See IF34, for some information on the aircraft's unit, 253 Kokutai.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Japanese
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    air to air
  • DWNZ6000c
    Des White
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mitsubishi Zero (later NZ6000) taxiing at Piva airstrip, Bougainville after being flown from the Japanese airfield Kara by Wing Commander WR Kofoed.
    Kofoed
    Zeke
    Zero
    Mitsubishi
    Piva
    Bougainville
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    White
  • PR7762
    RNZAF
    Line-up of three Japanese Mitsubishi A6M5 Reisen - Zero Fighters with their engines running about to fly to Jacquinot Bay [?] Aircraft are missing wheel covers on their undercarriage doors. Allied code name: 'ZEKE'.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mitsubishi
    Zero
    Zeke
    Rabaul