Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of a Harvard. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Dh86 Express after crashing at RNZAF Station Ohakea.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of a Kittyhawk, possibly from No. 2 Operational Training Unit. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of a Kittyhawk, possibly from No. 2 Operational Training Unit. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of a Kittyhawk, possibly from No. 2 Operational Training Unit. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Scattered wreckage of an Oxford. Believed to be somewhere in the Marlborough area.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Scattered wreckage of an Oxford. Believed to be somewhere in the Marlborough area.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Scattered wreckage of an Oxford. Believed to be somewhere in the Marlborough area.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Scattered wreckage of an Oxford. Believed to be somewhere in the Marlborough area.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage after an Oxford taxied into another Oxford. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Wigram.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of a Tiger Moth after crashing and burning. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of an Oxford after crashing. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. 3/4 front view of a belly-landed Kittyhawk. Unknown location.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Tiger Moth NZ1483 from No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School, after crashing in a field "10 miles south of Wigram." The pilot, Leading Aircraftman WO Sly was injured. Handwritten on the reverse "2EFTS Ashburton / crashed 6/Sept/1944 [sic] / unauthorised low flying."

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Tiger Moth NZ845 from No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School after crashing in a field near Mayfield. The pilot, Leading Aircraftman TD Faithful was slightly injured.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Tiger Moth NZ845 from No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School after crashing in a field near Mayfield. The pilot, Leading Aircraftman TD Faithful was slightly injured.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Tiger Moth NZ845 from No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School after crashing in a field near Mayfield. The pilot, Leading Aircraftman TD Faithful was slightly injured.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Tiger Moth NZ845 from No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School after crashing in a field near Mayfield. The pilot, Leading Aircraftman TD Faithful was slightly injured.

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Oxford NZ1283 from No. 3 Service Flying Training School after crashing near RNZAF Station Ohakea. See also 1988-176.5

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Oxford NZ1283 from No. 3 Service Flying Training School after crashing near RNZAF Station Ohakea. See also 1988-176.26b

Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Personnel moving the wing-less and engine-less No. 9 Squadron Hudson NZ2023 after a heavy landing at Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, New Caledonia. This aircraft was later reduced to spares. Information taken from identical print at 2018-234.29

Image from the David Andrew Dunn personal collection. No. 40 Squadron Lodestar NZ3515 after brake failure and swinging off the runway at Norfolk Island. Associated document describes: "A Lodestar of No. 40 sqdn. after a very embarrassed(!) pilot had retracted his undercarriage instead of flaps while taxying along the coral strip." Unsure which of these two descriptions is correct.

Damage to starboard bow of a Marine Craft, W88?, at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Damaged starboard propeller of a Marine Craft, W88?, at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.

Damaged propellers of a Marine Craft, W88?, at RNZAF Station Hobsonville.