Aircraft: A-4K
Custodian: Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Date: 01 JAN 2000
Photo credit: Wing Commander Herb Keightyley
Contact: Don Simms
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Description: Number 75 Squadron Commanding Officer Wing Commander Herb Keightley led a flight of four Skyhawks to welcome the new year, new century and new millennium. The Skyhawk formation took off from the Ohakea, New Zealand Air Force Base at 0500 hours local, climbed to 25,000 feet and flew east until at 0530 hours the sun rose. Here the flight was approximately 100 nautical miles feet wet off the East Coast of New Zealand.
The new millennium Skyhawk flight was:
NZ 6206, BuNo. 157909, Wing Commander Herb Keightley (CO 75 Squadron RNZAF)
NZ 6209, BuNo. 157912, Flight Leutenant Tim McClean
NZ 6214, BuNo. 154908, Flight Leutenant "BJ" Hollinshead
NZ 6217, BuNo. 155063, Flying Officer "Malco" Campbell.
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