An exploration of Skerretts Creek with friends in search of the Kittyhawk wreckage, tracing aircraft debris through bush and...
Wainuiomata: Kittyhawk
Bush Bash 14
David Johnson / / / Expeditions, Bush, Bush Bashing, Kittyhawk, Mountains, Trees / 0I mapped the location of the probable Kittyhawk crash site, & scoped out 2 other potential sites.
Bush Bash 13
David Johnson / / / Expeditions, Artefacts, Bush, Bush Bashing, Kittyhawk, Mountains / 0This bush bash was planned as a revisit of the Kittyhawk plane crash site as discovered in my previous...
A fragment of aircraft fuselage, serves as a poignant reminder of a wartime training accident that took place more...
Bush Bash 12
David Johnson / / / Expeditions, Artefacts, Bush, Bush Bashing, Kittyhawk, Mountains, Rivers / 0At long last, the day had arrived to discover the wreckage of the Kittyhawk, the plane that went down...
This is part of a plane wreck, specifically the landing gear, from a kittyhawk that crashed in 1943. Other...
V12 Allison Motor from Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
David Johnson / / / Photos, Artefacts, Kittyhawk, Rivers / 0Looking at a V12 Allison Motor from a Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk that crashed in the Wainuiomata hills in 1943.
Bush Bash 3
David Johnson / / / Expeditions, Artefacts, Bush, Bush Bashing, Kittyhawk, Rivers / 0During this impromptu adventure, I navigated along a river, leaping from one moss-covered rock to another, then finding a...
The Press 21 Mar 1987
David Johnson / / / History, News, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0The Wainuiomata police yesterday made a breakthrough in their search for dental records to identify positively a pilot killed.
The Press 20 Mar 1987
David Johnson / / / History, News, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0The body of a man killed in a light plane crash near Wellington last month has still not been formally identified.
The Press 06 Feb 1987
David Johnson / / / History, News, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0A light twin-engine aircraft carrying two or three persons crashed on Orongorongo Station, south of Wainuiomata last night.
The Press 23 Feb 1970
David Johnson / / / History, News, Artefacts, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0Parts of a wartime Kittyhawk fighter which crashed in the Orongorongo Ranges near Wainuiomata 27 years ago were salvaged...
Evening Post 05 Jun 1943
David Johnson / / / History, News, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0That Sergeant Pilot Thomas Victor Marchant died from injuries suffered in a crash at Wainui-o-mata on May 1.
Wanganui Chronicle 05 May 1943
David Johnson / / / History, News, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk, Newspaper / 0Sergeant Thomas Victor Marchant, P-.N.Z.A.F. lost his life on Saturday afternoon. when the aircraft in which he was the sole occupant...
Kittyhawk Plane Wreckage
David Johnson / / / History, Artefacts, Bush, Crash Reports, Deaths, Kittyhawk / 0History of Kittyhawk 3031, a plane that crashed in the hills in Wainuiomata in 1943. Includes photos of the...
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