Warbirds, classic aircraft, museum and airshow news New Zealand Mossie #3 Flies! The third De Havilland Mosquito rebuilt in New Zealand has flown. The aircraft, ZK-BCV, made its first post-rebuild flight on January 13. Steve Hinton of Chino, California was the pilot. The owner is said to be Rod Lewis. This content is available exclusively

Training and experience were the true saviours. It is known as the “Miracle on the Hudson”. Five minutes of flight time that have been documented, dissected and dramatised on the world stage. Yet beyond this skilful act of piloting, the incident reached the broader community in a way that few aviation events had previously. Now,

Eviation charges towards the electric dream. Since the earliest days of powered flight, clean, quiet and reliable electric propulsion has been the dream of aviators and aircraft designers alike. The first electrically-powered airship was flown in 1881, predating the Wright Brothers by more than two decades. Yet despite the successful utilisation of electric propulsion on

Every summer, mostly military aircraft from the United States, New Zealand, South Korea and Italy carry more than 5,500 passengers and 1,400 tonnes of cargo on 100 flights between their Christchurch base and Antarctica, supplementing sea cargo delivering provisions. The small New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) contingent takes about 500 of those passengers and 90,718kg