Warbird Information Exchange

After the war it became part of the famous Rukuhia scrap yard, an area of more than 500 WWII RNZAF aircraft. These were slowly broken up until the 1960s.

What got you interested in WWII aircraft?
I learned about the dump areas near Rukuhia airfield in New Zealand, and spent many days investigating the 102 P-40 hulks (plus three Corsairs and two Hudson fuselages) that were all that was left of the hundreds of RNZAF wartime aircraft scrapped there. By the early 1960s those visits had led to a decision to acquire a P-40 "for restoration", a story told in greater detail in a new book The Whole Nine Yards - Story of an Anzac P-40 by well-known New Zealand author John King.