Community hangar opens

By Chris Valli

Mayor Nadine Taylor officially opened the new Heritage Aviation Community Hangar last Sunday

Owned by the New Zealand Aviation Museum Trust, the new facility is designed to be used by volunteers to construct, repair and house projects in support of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre and the Classic Fighters Airshow this coming Easter.

It will also provide welcome shelter for aircraft that are temporarily removed from the museum to carry out maintenance or to create space for a special evening event. The hangar has been made possible through the generosity of local businesses and volun- teer labour over the past two years. Support and contractors included: Transpower (donated all the steel and iron from their building removed from Green Lane), TC Engineering, Smart Alliance, ITM Blenheim, Roofline Marlborough, Allied Concrete, Cuddons, Equus, Lloyds Drainage, Blacks, Peter Mark Floorpride, Popeys., Blenheim Engineering Supplies, NM Fire Systems, Hendersons. Vulcan Steel, DC Electrics, Bowers-Brown Plumbing and Gas and builders Clinton Mawson and Brent Collins.

Mayor Nadine Taylor cuts the ribbon to officially open the New Zealand Aviation Museum Trust’s new hangar, flanked by Jane Orphan (CEO, Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre) and Trust Chairman Brian Greenall.