Our next military transport could be built by Kawasaki. And the aircraft which patrol our maritime borders could come off the same factory line.

Missing yachtie likely to be sailing his tiny catamaran to Australia, where he has disappeared with his 6-year-old daughter Que previously, according to an expert.

A man and his son missing at sea off Tonga since Saturday have been found safe by the NZ Defence Force.

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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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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.

Defence Force sends hundreds of staff plus planes and ships to earthquake-affected south.

Three fishermen missing at sea for more than a week have been found alive by the RNZAF.

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

Andrew Friend's last name was also one of the best descriptors of the popular Kiwi ex-airforce pilot.

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.

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.

Richie McCaw made his name as an openside flanker, but the All Black legend is now a wing commander.

Parents of an Air Force sergeant killed in a fatal Anzac Day helicopter crash say they have been let down by the coroner.

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.