The New Zealand Defence Force is helping search for three fishermen who have been missing at sea off the Pacific island-nation of Kiribati since last week.

If everything you know about the world's most famous plane is from the movie, then fasten your seat belt. It's even better in real life.

On the day Donald Trump lashed out at Boeing for the cost of replacing Air Force One it was making the first 787-10 Dreamliner.

A hunter who had been missing in the Kaimanawa Ranges since Saturday evening has been found.

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More than 25 police staff remain in Kaikoura and the surrounding area offering reassurance to locals and offering their assistance.

A pumice raft spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force crew has pointed to a possible major undersea eruption somewhere in the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc.

The military will today drop in on people cut off by this week's quake.

Police are checking that people have a legitimate reason to be in quake-hit areas.

The Air Force has sent a plane to Kiribati in search for three fishermen.

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The fault that grounded the Prime Minister's plane in Townsville was unrelated to the amount of flying the aircraft has done, says the Air Force.

It was a faulty switch that left an air force plane grounded in Australia and Prime Minister John Key and 80 delegates stranded en route to India.

EDITORIAL: The public have a right to ask what is going on at Whenuapai if a mission such as this one cannot be executed successfully.

Prime Minister John Key will land in New Delhi overnight to finally start his India trip after plane problems meant he had to cancel one of only three days in the country.

The breakdown of Prime Minister John Key's military plane in Australia is the latest in a series of incidents.

John Key, who has been forced to cancel the first day of his trip to India, describes the situation as "sub optimal".

A Dutch tramper who had been stranded on Mt Taranaki for two days by heavy snow has been plucked to safety.

A Kiwi team is battling sweltering and dusty conditions in the Middle East.

Whanganui 21-year-old Patrick Richardson has celebrated his formal commissioning as a Royal Navy Officer on parade at Britannia Royal

Memories flooded back for Alan Frewer as he soared into the skies over North Canterbury in a Spitfire.

So pigs can't fly - but four clever pooches showed they could, no sweat.

Four plumes of smoke at South Head in Kaipara Harbour signalled the Royal New Zealand Air Force's six-monthly live bomb drop.

An air force veteran who lost his military medals to thieves may never again see his precious honours.

A trainee Air Force crew joined a search for a missing boat in the Pacific earlier this week, but failed to find it.

He cheated death with two World War II plane crashes, interrogation by German intelligence officers, a bayonet wound, and near-starvation as a prisoner of war.

Three Air Force staff were put under scrutiny after investigations into their connection to a company carrying out work that potentially saved the military's reputation.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has successfully rescued two Kiribati fishermen who were reported missing last week, just days after a first successful mission in the same region.

The air force will hold a three-day air show next year to celebrate its 80th birthday.