Warbirds & Wheels

Warbirds & Wheels in Wanaka, New Zealand is a museum displaying classic and vintage motors and bikes, focusing on the early 20th century, as well as military plane. It is placed at Wanaka Airport on State Highway 6. The museum become opened in December 2011 under an initiative by means of the Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust and 3 neighborhood businessmen to update the previous New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum. While the modern-day museum nevertheless has numerous navy plane on static show - as of 2016 a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a BAC Strikemaster Mk 88, a de Havilland Vampire FB5, a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIA, and a duplicate Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a - the emphasis has shifted greater toward classic and antique motors and bikes.

The museum is controlled with the aid of a consortium of private car collectors from Wanaka and focuses specially on vehicles from the Thirties to Nineteen Fifties. Specifically, the gathering consists of several rare motors and examples of automobiles from before World War II, which include a meticulously restored 1934 Duesenberg Model J e the only one inside the southern hemisphere, a 1935 Auburn 851 SC, a "one in all " 1918 Packard semi-collapsible Landaulet Fleetwood version from New York, and a handful of pre-World War I vehicles consisting of a 1907 Ford Model K.