Skyhawks back next week
PA Wellington .At least four of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s recently grounded Skyhawk aircraft will have returned to service by the end of next week. The Skyhawk squadron was withdrawn from service on March 7 when a fault was found in one of the jets as it prepared to take off’ from Ohakea airbase.
Subsequent checks found that a small piece had broken away from one of the engine compressor discs and had passed through the engine. An inspection of Skyhawk engines at Woodbourne base, near Blenheim, has revealed the identical defect in nine of the 14 engines stripped to date, according to an Air Force spokesman.
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Press, 29 March 1980, Page 7
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