Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre

The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre is an aviation museum placed at the Omaka Air Field, five km from the centre of Blenheim, New Zealand. A resurgence of historical past aviation interest started within the Marlborough region inside the late Nineteen Nineties when a group of enthusiasts imported Chinese Nanchang CJ-6 trainers and hooked up the Marlborough Warbirds Association as a way to foster interest and provide a social network of guide.

As growing numbers of aircraft had been primarily based at Omaka, word in their life led to growing numbers of vacationers journeying the centers. In 1997, a small group of plane owners and lovers installed the New Zealand Aviation Museum Trust to offer a means of making the plane on hand to the general public on a more sensible and sustainable basis at the same time as performing as catalyst to attract aviation enterprise and funding to the Marlborough vicinity and on the identical time develop the general public understanding and appreciation of aviation.