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| | Royal New Zealand Air Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | New Zealand's military aviation began in 1913 when the New Zealand Army was presented with two Bleriot monoplanes by the United Kingdom. |
 | | Later New Zealand squadrons were 485, Supermarine Spitfires 486, Hawker Hurricanes, Hawker Typhoons and Hawker Tempests, 487, Lockheed Venturas and De Havilland Mosquitoes 488, Brewster Buffaloes, Hawker Hurricanes, Bristol Beaufighters and De Havilland Mosquitoes 489, Bristol Blenheims, Bristol Beauforts, Handley Page Hampdens, Bristol Beaufighters, and De Havilland Mosquitoes and 490, Consolidated Catalinas and Short Sunderlands. |
 | | Map outlines of New Zealand, with a Kiwi superimposed, appeared on the tails of Canberras flown from Singapore in the Malayan Emergency. |
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