Skyhawk (Jet attack plane)
Aircraft carrier Enterprise with Skyhawk flying above
Date: 9 September 1964
From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities
Reference: 35mm-18167-22-F
Description: American nuclear powered aircraft carrier, Enterprise, during a visit to New Zealand. Shows a Skyhawk aircraft in the air. Photograph probably taken on 9 September 1964 by Morrie Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (Individual image on negative strip). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm Processing information: The date for this photograph was previously given as October 1964, but was changed to 9 September 1964 after receiving information from a Library staff member (in October 2016).
RNZAF Skyhawks sold. 7 January 2011
Date: 2011
From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
Reference: DCDL-0016814
Description: The words 'Going...going...going...going...' appear across the top of the cartoon; below is a rather battered-looking Skyhawk and nearby a sign reading 'RNZAF Skyhawks for sale' but the word 'sale' has been covered with a 'sold' sticker. Context - in fact this didn't happen. The current Government's Christmas deadline for TAS (Tactical Air Services) to come up with some money has passed with no sign of a cheque in the mail. The air force's 17 mothballed Skyhawk jet fighters look likely to end up as museum pieces or spare parts after a Christmas deadline passed with no sign of any money from the American buyer. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).
'Retired RNZAF Skyhawks - unsold, unsure, sold'. 8 October 2009
Date: 2009
From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].
Reference: DCDL-0012490
Description: Cartoon shows a member of the New Zealand Air Force sitting on a stool with a beard trailing to his feet observing a row of RNZAF Skyhawks. A notice on the wall indicates that they are now 'sold' after being 'unsold' and 'unsure'. Refers to the announcement by Wayne Mapp, Minister of Defence, of the sale of the mothballed New Zealand Air Force planes to a US company that has gained final approval in Washington. The $155 million deal to sell the the 17 Skyhawk fighter bombers and 17 Aermacchi jet trainers, following the disbanding of the Air Force strike wing, was announced in principle four years ago. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Smashing Prices! Skyhawks. 24 September 2010
Date: 2010
From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015630
Description: An RNZAF Skyhawk is being offered for sale, with the added incentive of a scantily-clad girl, in a '7 day sale before GST'. The title is 'Smashing prices'. 'WINZ vouchers are accepted' and there is an offer of a 'Free terracotta birdbath with every plane sold'. Refers to the saga of the sale of the 17 Skyhawks and 17 Aermacchi trainers. The Skyhawks were decommissioned in 2001. The Clark Government was determined to sell the aircraft and thus created a disaster for the taxpayer essentially because of the global credit crisis. Two separate bidders were prepared to pay $35 million for the Skyhawks. One of them, Arizona company Tactical Air Services (TAS) agreed in 2005 to buy the 45-year-old jets, plus 17 more modern Aermacchi trainers, for $155 million. But the United States State Department took four years to give its approval and since getting it last year, TAS has not come up with the money. PM John Key has now said that if they weren't sold, they could be given to aero clubs for display purposes, and one could be given to Australia as a museum piece.The New Zealand Government will give a United States company until Christmas to come up with money to buy its Skyhawks after the company was granted extended import approval by its own authorities. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Skyhawks to become museum pieces? 22 September 2010
Date: 2010
From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0015631
Description: A man encourages sightseers to come to the 'Woodburne Museum' the see the Skyhawks in the 'elephants graveyard'. Text reads 'Skyhawks to become museum pieces'. Refers to the saga of the sale of the 17 Skyhawks and 17 Aermacchi trainers by the RNZAF. The Skyhawks were decommissioned in 2001. The Clark Government was determined to sell the aircraft and thus created a disaster for the taxpayer essentially because of the global credit crisis. Two separate bidders were prepared to pay $35 million for the Skyhawks. One of them, Arizona company Tactical Air Services (TAS) agreed in 2005 to buy the 45-year-old jets, plus 17 more modern Aermacchi trainers, for $155 million. But the United States State Department took four years to give its approval and since getting it last year, TAS has not come up with the money. PM John Key has now said that if they weren't sold, they could be given to aero clubs for display purposes, and one could be given to Australia as a museum piece.The New Zealand Government will give a United States company until Christmas to come up with money to buy its Skyhawks after the company was granted extended import approval by its own authorities. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).