#aviation photos

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B-2 taking off from RAF Fairford during RIAT

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VH-EXZ departing Auckland Airport for Australia as TMN1, 2022.

New to DHL as a Boeing 767-3JHF(ER), it was given the c/r G-DHLH and was owned by DHL Air Ltd, Belgium. In 2013, while leased to DHL Air, East Midlands, it ferried 9 silverback gorillas from a zoo in Kent to Gabon.

When Tasman Cargo Airlines (t/a DHL) retired their 757-236(F), a replacement was sought. In 2017, G-DHLH was leased by Tasman Cargo Airlines and, in 2018, was ferried via Hong Kong to Auckland.

It made its first revenue flight as TCA1 (SYD-AKL) on 07/07/2018. It has since been registered to DHL Air International GmbH and is leased to Tasman Cargo Airlines to present.

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Can’t believe I haven’t posted Tango yet… my planesona… He’s an airline mechanic who’s got a couple screws loose

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American Volunteer Group - AVG - pilot and group candids

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Grumman TBM Avenger getting serviced by Aviation Ordance Men as they service the .50 caliber machine guns + plane turrets

Circa 1944-45

Source: NationalArchives

Color: Colourised PIECE of JAKE

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B-25 Mitchell & P-51 Mustangs

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Swordfish Mk. I of 820 Naval Air Squadron flies over the British aircraft-carrier HMS ‘Ark Royal’ in 1939.

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SAAB SK 35C Draken operated by the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight - 2017 Mora airshow, Sweden

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A gaggle of Tiger Moths at Kaipara Flats.

5 Tiger Moths attended Wings and Wheels Kaipara, of which 2 (ZK-CCQ, ASM) are locally based.

Built at Rongotai (now Wellington Airport WLG/NZWN) by de Havilland New Zealand in 1942, msn DHNZ132 was bought on charge with Unit 18 of the RNZAF.

It was given the s/n NZ1452 and declared surplus in 1956. It was sold to Tulloch Transport, Mararua, for £400 and remained in storage for just shy of a decade.

It was given the c/r ZK-CCQ, and after bouncing between Kirikiroa Hamilton and Tauranga for a bit, it was sold to H. Griffin* in 1970.

It was sold to its current owner in 1987.

*No doubt this is the same H. Griffin, founder of Griffin's Ag-Air in Palmerston North.

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A Dewoitine D.520... just because it's beautiful.

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Supermarine Spitfire

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Demo with his various lads