Programme

Friday 21 January – Practice Day

This will be the official practice day of the event with gates opening from 12.00pm and aircraft practicing their displays informally throughout the afternoon culminating in an informal early evening show finishing at 7.00pm.

Saturday 22 – Sunday 23 January

Gates will open from 8.30am with the air display running from 11.00am to 4.30pm on both days. The flying each day will culminate in a mock air field attack and a dramatic pyrotechnic display, by one of New Zealand’s leading pyrotechnic teams, lighting up the skies and thrilling the crowds.

Listed below are the attending aircraft.

The programme may vary slightly on each day.

Attending Aircraft

WW1

Three Fokker Dr-1 Triplanes
Sopwith Camel
Three RAF Se.5a's
Fokker DVII
Bristol F2b
Sopwith Triplane
RAF Fe2b
RAF BE.2f
RAF BE.2c
AVRO 504k

WW2

Two Spitfire's
Two P40 Kittyhawk
Corsair
P 51 Mustang
Six Harvard's (Roaring 40's)
ME108

JETS

D H Venom
Two D H Vampire's
Three L 39's

RNZAF

Red Checkers
Kiwi Blue
B 757
C 130 Hercules
Two UH-1H Huey's
Sioux
Harvard

NON-MILITARY

Thunder Mustang
M X 2
Nine Yak 52's
Southern D C 3 A/C (Saturday only)
Air Tractor
Ag Cat
D H Beaver
D H Dominie
SVAS Dancing Tigers
D H Tiger Moth, Solo Aerobatics
D H Tiger Moth, Wing Walker
D H Tiger Moth, Sprayer
Aronca

HELICOPTERS

HB K 117 Life Flight Trust
Squirrel 350
Two HS 500, Double Act
HS 300, Spray demo
R 44
R 22