Blenheim, Marlborough New Zealand — Aviation fans will be thrilled by the appearance of two of World War II’s best-known fighter planes at this year’s show, says Omaka Classic Fighters Airshow organiser Graham Orphan.
The biggest drawcard at Marlborough’s biennial airshow will be the beautifully reconditioned German Focke-Wulf Fw190 and the British Spitfire Mk.XIVe, he said yesterday.
The two aircraft were considered to be the elite fighter aircraft at the end of World War II, the result of a technology race between the Germans and the British to produce the quickest and most powerful aircraft.
“When the Luftwaffe [German Airforce] Focke-Wulf took to the skies at the end of World War II, it just blew everything else out of the water,” said Mr Orphan.
“And when the Royal Airforce honed the Spitfire by giving it a new engine, the two aircraft represented the pinnacle of development in the second half of World War II.”
The three-day event at the the Omaka Aerodrome near Blenheim during Easter Weekend March 29-31, is the major fundraising event for the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre.