No. 13 (City of Napier) Squadron

Here’s a video clip of our flights with 3 SQN at Exercise Wiseowl in June this year. Thanks to Mr. Unsworth for his work on this clip.

During the weekend 14 – 15 August 2010, New Zealand Cadet Forces (NZCF) Officer Update Training was held at RNZAF Base Ohakea and hosted by Central Area Cadet Forces Training & Support Unit (CACFTSU).  FGOFF Faulknor-Murrell attended alongside 16 other Cadet Forces Officers from all three regions.  The focus of this training weekend was assessing [...]

This year’s WiseOwl was held at Napier Airport and PTS gave us the opportunity to hang out with them at their OpenDay and help with the carparking and raise funds for the Unit. To say thanks for all our efforts, the cadets (and Officers) were taken for a flight in an Iroquois – awesome!

Back to our usual spot for the Annual Bushcraft camp. Many thanks to Grant Garrity (Chairperson of the Support Committe) and FGOFF Melissa Cooper from No 11 Sqn for helping out this year. A new interest has sprung from the camp, geocaching! For all those non-geek type people, its a digital treasure hunt and the [...]

Bridge Pa 08 May 2010 13 Squadron finally managed to catch up with FGOFF Walton of 11 Squadron and get our helicopter flights done.  These were supposed to be done as part of our aviation camp in February though unfortunately at the time FGOFF Walton had broken his hand in a sporting incident!  Now he [...]

This exercise was held on the weekend of 26 – 28 March 2010 and – as always – was for Basic Flight and NCOs.  First Strike serves as an introductory camp for our new recruits and gives them a good foundation of team work and basic outdoors skills. On the Friday night we got sorted [...]

We had a great day helping out the Central Hawke’s Bay Aeroclub with their 75th Anniversary celebration on 27 February 2010. In attendance were FGOFF Faulknor-Murrell, CPLs Garrity, Hesseltine, MacKay and McGregor along with CDTs James, Kent, Millan-Lucas & Unsworth.  Also in attendance were a number of RNZAF aircraft including one UH-1 Iroquois of 3 [...]

An ex-RNZAF and original ATC member Mr Matt Browne requested in his will that an ATC Guard be at his funeral. This guard was provided by 13 Sqn. Warrant Officer Ogier, Sgt’s Godwin and Slater, Cpl Marshall, Cadets White, Hessiltine and Unsworth provided an excellent Guard. The Guard was brought to ATTENTION as the coffin [...]

RNZAF Base Auckland 10 – 19 August 2007 Firstly, let me note that this report will not be an “I got up 0545 today and went to breakfast” type report. It stands as a reflection on the course as a whole. There’s been rumour, promise and threat on the air for some time now in [...]