• PR754-7-72
    RNZAF
    Raising of the wreck of the Hautapu at RNZAF Base Shelly Bay. Parts of the Hautapu being raised by the floating crane Hikitia.
    RNZAF
    Shelly Bay
    Hautapu
    Navy
  • PR754-8-72
    RNZAF
    Raising of the wreck of the Hautapu at RNZAF Base Shelly Bay. Parts of the Hautapu being raised by the floating crane Hikitia.
    RNZAF
    Shelly Bay
    Hautapu
    Navy
  • PR754-2-72
    RNZAF
    Raising of the wreck of the Hautapu at RNZAF Base Shelly Bay. Parts of the Hautapu being raised by the floating crane Hikitia.
    RNZAF
    Shelly Bay
    Hautapu
    Navy
  • PR754-1-72
    RNZAF
    Raising of the wreck of the Hautapu at RNZAF Base Shelly Bay. Parts of the Hautapu being raised by the floating crane Hikitia.
    RNZAF
    Shelly Bay
    Hautapu
    Navy
    Hikitia
  • 1988-186.23b
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Reverend Roy K Matheson personal collection. RNZAF Marine Craft W186 with launching crane at Norfolk Island.
    WW2
    World War Two
    Marine Craft
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    Matheson
    W186
    Norfolk Island
  • ON20030751p
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Negative from the William Henry Potter personal collection. Unknown man working on the construction of a dummy Hudson, believed to be at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. Crane holding up the starboard wing to be attached to the fuselage.
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Hudson
    Hobsonville
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Potter
  • Ak1221-98
    RNZAF
    Galion crane, number plate HP4763, on static display inside a hangar during Wings and Wheels day at Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.
    Wings and Wheels
    Open Day
    Whenuapai
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Galion
    HP4763
    hangar
  • Ak1220-98
    RNZAF
    Galion crane, number plate HP4763, on static display inside a hangar during Wings and Wheels day at Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.
    RNZAF
    Whenuapai
    Open Day
    Wings and Wheels
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Galion
    HP4763
    hangar
  • ALB2318313025
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Allan Mason Forbes Alexander personal album. AMF Alexander at the controls of a Cessna Crane. Unknown location in Canada. Taken during training with No. 4 Service Flying Training School, RCAF.
    training
    cockpit
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    RCAF
    EATS
    Crane
    Canada
    BCATP
    Alexander
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 4 Service Flying Training School
    4SFTS
  • ALB2318313026
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Allan Mason Forbes Alexander personal album. Unknown pilot at the controls of a Cessna Crane. Unknown location in Canada. Taken during training with No. 4 Service Flying Training School, RCAF.
    training
    cockpit
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    RCAF
    EATS
    Crane
    Canada
    BCATP
    Alexander
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 4 Service Flying Training School
    4SFTS
  • ALB2318313007
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Allan Mason Forbes Alexander personal album. AMF Alexander at the controls of a Cessna Crane. Unknown location in Canada. Taken during training with No. 4 Service Flying Training School, RCAF. Handwritten in image area "Cessna Crane 1941." Handwritten beside the print in the album "Dad training."
    cockpit
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    RCAF
    EATS
    Crane
    Canada
    BCATP
    Alexander
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    No. 4 Service Flying Training School
    4SFTS
  • ALB991972001
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the David Hamilton Tudhope log book. Air to air view of Crane 7895, from No. 10 Service Flying Training School, in flight. Canada.
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Tudhope
    Canada
    No. 10 Service Flying Training School
    10STFS
    Crane
    7895
    air to air
    RCAF
    RNZAF
    training
  • MUS080085
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Front view of Cessna UC78 (?), 'Bamboo Bomber' at an unknown airfield, possibly on Guadalcanal. Nose art "Sophie". This is the USAAF version of the Cessna Crane.
    Guadalcanal
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    USAAF
    Army
    Cessna
  • MUS1001817
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Harvard NZ1058 after the port undercarriage collapsed on the airfield at RNZAF Station Wigram. Fire tender at left and a Land Rover and Coles Crane at right.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Harvard
    Wigram
    NZ1058
    accident
    Mechanical Transport
    Land Rover
  • Wb2282-97
    RNZAF
    Galion crane preparing to lift the forward fuselage and wing of a Skyhawk, tipped over outside the Small Aircraft Maintenance Flight. RNZAF Base Woodbourne.
    Skyhawk
    Woodbourne
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • Wb2281-97
    RNZAF
    Serviceman attaching lifting wires so a Galion crane can lift the forward fuselage and wing of a Skyhawk, tipped over outside the Small Aircraft Maintenance Flight. RNZAF Base Woodbourne.
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    RNZAF
    Woodbourne
    Skyhawk
    fire
  • Wb2280a-97
    RNZAF
    Galion crane preparing to lift the forward fuselage and wing of a Skyhawk, tipped over outside the Small Aircraft Maintenance Flight. RNZAF Base Woodbourne.
    Skyhawk
    Woodbourne
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • PR778
    RNZAF
    RNZAF mobile crane driver at work. Unknown location. See Contact magazine, September 1943, page 38.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • Wb50-97
    RNZAF
    Crash landing of Nomad ZK-NAD at RNZAF Base Woodbourne. Galion crane preparing to lift the aircraft.
    accident
    ZK-NAD
    Nomad
    Woodbourne
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • Wb49-97
    RNZAF
    Crash landing of Nomad ZK-NAD at RNZAF Base Woodbourne. Galion crane preparing to lift the aircraft.
    accident
    ZK-NAD
    Nomad
    Woodbourne
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • Wb48-97
    RNZAF
    Crash landing of Nomad ZK-NAD at RNZAF Base Woodbourne. Galion crane preparing to lift the aircraft.
    accident
    ZK-NAD
    Nomad
    Woodbourne
    RNZAF
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
  • WgG1227-15-84
    RNZAF
    Airtrainer NZ1937 being lowered onto a truck for transport back to RNZAF Base Wigram, after force-landing in a field near Motukarara. Bedford flat deck truck with crane, number plate HX1922 (left) and Bedford tractor truck, number plate IT8791 (right).
    HX1922
    accident
    Bedford
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    NZ1937
    Airtrainer
    Motukarara
    RNZAF
    IT8791
  • WgG1227-16-84
    RNZAF
    Airtrainer NZ1937 being lowered onto a flat-deck truck for transport back to RNZAF Base Wigram, after force-landing in a field near Motukarara. Bedford flat deck truck with crane, number plate HX1922 (left) and Bedford tractor truck, number plate IT8791 (right).
    RNZAF
    Motukarara
    Airtrainer
    NZ1937
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Bedford
    accident
    HX1922
    IT8791
  • WgG1227-10-84
    RNZAF
    Personnel preparing Airtrainer NZ1937 for transport back to RNZAF Base Wigram, after force-landing in a field near Motukarara. Bedford flat deck truck with crane, number plate HX1922 (left).
    RNZAF
    Motukarara
    Airtrainer
    NZ1937
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Bedford
    accident
    HX1922
  • WgG1227-11-84
    RNZAF
    Personnel preparing Airtrainer NZ1937 for transport back to RNZAF Base Wigram, after force-landing in a field near Motukarara. Bedford flat deck truck with crane, number plate HX1922 (left).
    RNZAF
    Motukarara
    Airtrainer
    NZ1937
    Mechanical Transport
    MT
    Bedford
    accident
    HX1922