NZFF

by **Syncop8r** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:13 am

From Stuff... http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2828633/Un...s-WWII-history/

by **Ian Warren** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:38 am

This sounds familar

The planes were given to New Zealand on a lend-lease deal with the United States to provide support in the Pacific. At the end of the war they could not be sold, so the air force dismantled them for reuse or scrap.

Little like a few Skyhawks we all talk about .

by **Bazza** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:00 pm

Except we didn't pay anything for the WW2 stuff......

by **deeknow** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:40 pm

Great stuff. Good fun I bet. When I was a kid I had a mate who's Dad owned a warehouse in Rukuhia where a huge portion of the scavanged parts from those aircraft were stored while they were being sold off. We spent many an afternoon crawling around and playing with all manner of aircraft pieces, "borrowing" wires and switches for our model-railways etc, jeeze it was fun. I guess what they couldnt sell they dumped in that guy's gulley.

by **ZK-MAT** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:24 pm

I saw this on the news tonight. The kid plugging away with a spade. With 400 planes buried there, I'd get in a bobcat or three and get stuck in. I am suprised no-one else has got involved ... who's land is it? Can you see anything on Google Earth?

by **Syncop8r** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:59 pm

You would probably need a resource consent to dig below a certain depth too

Website · by **Njbb1995** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:13 am

Do you think they could be made airworthy one day?

by **Naki** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:58 pm

You are not going to find 400 planes down there ..you may find one or two..most (other the odd Kittyhawk and Corsair which are mostly now flying) were melted down and MAYBE a few got buried in their entirity

Website · by **Njbb1995** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:43 pm

One or two Would be fine

NZFF

Old Warplanes being dug up

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