WONZ 317 – Brett Marshall

WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet – Wigram

Guest: Wings Commander Brett Marshall, Museum Director at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 23rd of February 2025

Published: 17th of March 2025

Duration: 44 minutes, 49 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood introduced Brett Marshall, the first speaker at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet – Wigram. This event was a special gathering of WONZ Forum members and aviation fans to celebrate 20 years of the Wings Over New Zealand Forum.

Brett Marshall is an ex-RNZAF pilot who flew Fokker Friendships, Hawker Siddeley Andovers, and Lockheed C-130H Hercules transports. He is now the Museum Director at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram.

Brett talks about his background in the RNZAF and with the Museum, and he gives an overview of the history of the Wigram base, which is home to the AFMNZ, and is the birthplace of the RNZAF.

He then talks about the arrival at the museum a few days before of the Hercules NZ7001 which was big news, and the plans for it and the building it will go into that he is working on raising the funding for. He also talks about the Lockheed P-3K2 Orion that will also go into the building.

Quick Links:

• The Air Force Museum of New Zealand

• The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook

• Here is a previous appearance by Brett Marshall on the WONZ Show

The proposed new building on the left to house the Lockheed C-130H Hercules and the Lockheed P-3K2 Orion.

Thanks to Allan Udy for his assistance with recording this episode.