News

Digital magazines have been suspended whilst we pursue an alternative digital vehicle. We will update the CW site and Facebook page when we have another digital option in place...

We've been so busy on so many fronts at Omaka that the updates have been few and far between. With the onset of summer there seemed to be even more old aircraft activity at the field than usual.  Here are a few pix from last week....

Featured within the pages of our latest issue (#87) is your chance to bid on and make your own an example of the unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. UK Auction House Bonhams is offering Hurricane Mk XIIa (G-HURRI) on 3rd December.

With the fuselage now mostly complete, work is currently focusing on the wing build and a tentative target date for a first flight is the winter of 2013.

A total of 64 large objects ranging from aircraft to vehicles to weapons from the 'Large Exhibits Gallery', otherwise known as the Atrium in the Imperial War Museum South Lambeth, are currently being transferred to Duxford.

At 5:00 pm on Monday, 29th October, the Reid family's magnificent Avro Anson touched down on Omaka's hallowed grass to begin her residence on the field.

The first time that two representative WW-II Luftwaffe aircraft have flown together anywhere in Australasia.......EVER.

A dream was realized on the overcast morning of the 27th September at a small airfield just south of Auckland City, New Zealand when a powerful, but eternally elegant 'twin' lifted off the Ardmore tarmac.

Over the last week or two at Omaka we have seen a bunch of rainfall and flooding however that could not stop interesting things going on in and around the Classic Wings hangar.