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New Zealand’s old fighter jets ending role as ‘Top Gun bogeys’

by Stuff — 24 May 2022

Six Skyhawks flying in formation over Wellington in 2001 to say farewell as the combat wing disbanded.

The venerable Skyhawk jets that served as New Zealand’s last combat aircraft are coming to the end of their second life as ”adversaries” for foreign militaries.

After the Government decided the air force no longer needed an air strike wing in the early 2000s, its fleet of 17 A-4 Skyhawks were put up for sale.

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