Waitemata
Opened
Closed
Meaning: water as smooth as the surface of Obsidian
Auckland’s main Harbour, where most of the flying boats operated from.
Units known to have been Stationed there
No 3 Operational Training Unit
No 5 Squadron
No 6 Squadron
MOCU
TEAL
Manukau
Opened 1943
Closed
Meaning: Wading Birds
Another Harbour, on the other side of the Auckland peninsular,
Used for operating flying Boats from.
No known units Stationed there.
Tauranga
Opened 18th January 1939
Requisitioned for RNZAF use in 1940
Closed Nov 44
The hangers were built by Public Works Department in 1942
Central Flying School was used to teach pilots how to become instructors.
flying Tiger Moths, Harvards and Oxfords,
It moved to Woodbourne in Nov 1944, effectively ending the RNZAF
use of the Station.
Units known to have been permanently stationed there
Central Flying School 1941 to Nov 44
[Instructors training]
No 303 Elementary Ground Training Squadron
Raglan
Built by the Public Works Department as a defence precaution
No known units were stationed there.
Waharoa
Nearest town was Matamata
Named after the rural area
Built just north of Matamata
Intended as an auxiliary bomber airfield in case of a Japanese invasion.
The site was chosen by F/O Arthur Bradshaw of the Aerodrome Services
Branch of Air Department.
It was constructed with reinforced grass runways capable of handling a B17,
if required.
A small skeleton staff was kept there, administered from RNZAF Hamilton.
Fuel was kept at the AR 9 Fuel depot in Cambridge.
No known units were stationed there
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Bugger! The steemit board now calls you a veteran!
Well done! You sabi steemit well
Hi there, long time no hear,
I reckon it is to do with doddery old age,
I thought it looked nice at the end of a post
Yeah, it actually looks nice! It will even keep on motivating you.
And seriously long time no hear, but we can talk more through mail if you'd like that
I hadn't seen you pop up in steemit and was wondering where you were,
It is always good to talk to somebody who reads your posts,
You will have to start a series on yourself from day 1 to now,
it will get you back into the habit of a daily post again.
Steemit can be time consuming and yet it doesn't pay.
I try to spend time to work for pay
I definitely agree on the amount of time required for steem,
Most of my stuff is just a matter of retyping from the hand written old pages, but it still take a long time
I guess it also pays you, judging from your steempower
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