Airborne Communications And Navigation Equipment Parts

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1046938 Scale Dial
005827778
278057 Scale Dial
012361074
5800335-0110-000 Scale Dial
005827778
652400-103 Scale Dial
005827778
90-1003-01 Scale Dial
002361854
910749-801 Scale Dial
010037732
914599-801 Scale Dial
010964867
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Airborne Communications And Navigation Equipment

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The Navigation, Air Electronics, and Telecommunications Training Squadron was a training squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It was based at the now-decommissioned RNZAF Base Wigram, near Christchurch. Equipped with 3 Fokker Friendship F27 Mk120s, NATS was responsible for training Navigators (NAV), Air Engineers (AIRENG) and Air Electronic Officers/Operators (AEO/AEOP).

Prior to this, it has operated a sizeable fleet (up to a dozen at one time?) of three de Havilland Devon (DH.104) variants. The first being the basic "communications" mini airliner, the next having two nav crates and an astrodome fitted, and the last, the "signals" version, sporting two radio crates for student AEOps to practice their airborne duties. While the aircraft could be operated by a single pilot, Flying Flight of NATS also had four signallers on its establishment and these grand masters of the morse key were essential equipment when the little twin pistons headed off into the cold and icy South Pacific for three hours at a time in the middle of winter. They also gave moral support to the pilot who found himself navigating in the dark on a knee pad to ensure the student passing navigational information forward was not taking him towards the South Pole instead of Wigram airfield.

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