Structure of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is organised into a small number of flying squadrons and ground-based units.

Several training and maintenance units are located at RNZAF Base Woodbourne in the South Island.

Northern Group, besides administering stations in New Zealand, also controlled Norfolk Island, where a radar unit and a servicing section catered for transient aircraft.

Air Commodore Maurice Buckley commanded Northern Group from Auckland in 1942–43.

Fighter Ops Room/Filter Room/COIC, Auckland[4] Through much of the postwar period the RNZAF was administered through two groups.

[7] Operations Group was formed on 1 July 1965, initially under the command of Air Commodore K.W.

209 (Expeditionary Support) Squadron was disestablished, and its RNZAF Force Protection, air movements, aviation refuelling, and other sub-units reassigned.

Two RNZAF P3K Orions flying in formation with a Boeing 757 and a C-130 Hercules in March 2009