New dog facility open🐾 Our Military Working Dogs in the new dog section at #BaseOhakea now have a permanent new home. The new facility includes an outdoor play area, kennels, and even a therapy pool for the dogs. Read more ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/new-mwd-facility #NZAirForce #Force4NZ

STORY📰 Training Instructor, CPL Trent Norman has recently returned from a deployment in the Middle East. CPL Norman was deployed to an operational base for three months where he ran training classes and rehabilitation for Kiwi personnel. ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/pti-in-middle-ea… #NZAirForce

STORY📰 No.3 Squadron has delivered more than four tonnes of pest traps into the lower North Island’s Ruahine Range, the largest one-day back country delivery of traps in New Zealand conservation history. ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/nh90-delivers-tr… #NZAirForce

Podium finish🥉LAC Bailey Jeffery has represented New Zealand at the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championships. He has made us all proud by winning a bronze medal for Individual Male Special Technique. Congratulations Bailey! 👏 #NZAirForce

A second medal for Stacey. An inspiration 👏

Tino pai Stacey! What an achievement.

READ 📖 The latest Air Force News is in, & it’s a goodie. Meet our new Chief, see our Security Force’s trainees rough it on training, catch our Hercules & Poseidon successes in the Pacific, and read about our impact at a major international exercise. ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/air-force-news

Not a sight you see every day! ✈️ NZ4203, our trusted P-3K2 Orion, which retired from active service in 2021, is on a 455-kilometre journey to its new home at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Christchurch. 📷 Air Force Museum of New Zealand #NZAirForce

In Marlborough, eleven trainees undergo Exercise Ruru, a crucial phase of Security Forces training. They learn field skills, patrolling, combat, and more to protect air bases during high-threat missions at home and abroad. #NZAirForce

NEWS📢 Our P-8A Poseidon has been involved in a multinational fisheries surveillance operation. The crew flew for just over 44 hours, covering around 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean as part of Operation Island Chief. ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/op-island-chief-… #NZAirForce

NEWS 📢 Air Commodore Darryn Webb, MNZM (picrured right), will take command of our Air Force following the appointment of Air Vice-Marshal Andrew Clark (pictured left) to the role of Director-General Government Communications Security Bureau. ➡️ nzdf.mil.nz/rnzaf-command-ch…

Filling the fisheries gap ✅ With the retirement of the P-3K2 Orion, the gap in fisheries patrols was covered by No. 42 SQN until the P-8A crews were fully trained and ready to complete all tasks. FLTLT Tyler Ngapo explains ⬇️ #NZAirForce nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/new…

Last week we celebrated the graduation of 38 aviators from the 23/02 Recruit Course at Base Woodbourne. Congratulations to our newest aviators! 📸 NZDF Photographer Petty Officer Chris Weissenborn #NZAirForce #Force4NZ

A complete set ✈️ #BaseOhakea had the rare opportunity to line all four P-8A Poseidons on the apron today, providing the perfect opportunity to capture the whole fleet. 📸 NZDF Photographer Corporal Maddy Butcher #NZAirForce #Force4NZ