SVAS  AIRSHOW SPECIAL NEWSLETTER

9 January 2005

The 2005 Whittaker’s Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow:

• Our biennial airshow is to take place on 22 & 23 Jan 2005 – Wellington Anniversary Weekend.
• Your committee has engaged a professional events manager, Liz Pollock, who has experience of events management and who arranged the Taupo Wings and Wine Airshow for the Taupo Aero Club last summer.
• Whittakers – a passion for chocolate since 1896 – are our ‘name’ Sponsors.
• The Masterton District Council is supporting the event as a major Wairarapa drawcard, while other Wairarapa institutions have also given support.

·        John Lanham and Sam Higgins are leading the air display planning; the air display will feature both WWI and WWII aircraft, as well as ag aviation, general aviation, helicopters and three jets.

 Members: How to get your free entry tickets to our airshow:

Members are entitled to TWO tickets, for either day of the airshow.

For preferential parking show your SVAS membership card to the parking staff on the day.

To get your tickets posted to you, email Liz at info@wings.org.nz

 Our Website

The SVAS Website is now active and being regularly updated. See: www.svas.org.nz

You will also be able to access airshow info at:  www.wings.org.nz

Members with ideas or contributions for the website please contact Richard Jackson.  And most importantly, if you spot errors or bloopers please advise me asap!

The Museum

Thanks to grants from Eastern & Central  and from Lotto, we are now progressing the Museum for our airshow.. The first priority is the kitchen and café facilities at the road-side end of the building.

We now have the Wright Replica Glider on loan from the RNZAF Museum at Christchurch.  It has been assembled and hung from the roof as one of our first displays, while as a first step Tiger Moth ANL has been wheeled onto the Museum display floor.