BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.

It was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s.

At the outbreak of World War II the primary equipment of the RNZAF was 30 Vickers Wellington bombers, which the New Zealand government had offered to the United Kingdom, in August 1939, together with the crews to fly them.

The primary role of the RNZAF was to take advantage of New Zealand's distance from the conflict by training aircrew, as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme, alongside the other major former British colonies, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

No. 75 Squadron RAF, was formed by RNZAF aircrews and Vickers Wellington bombers in August 1939.

The RNZAF was part of the force tasked with securing the line of advance by incapacitating bypassed Japanese strongholds, for example, Rabaul.

At the close of war the RNZAF was planning to bring 320 P51Ds into service as part replacement for the F4U.

To administer units in the South Pacific, No. 1 ( Islands ) Group RNZAF was formed on 10 March 1943.

Following World War II, No. 14 Squadron RNZAF was sent to Japan as part of the occupation J Force.

Through much of the postwar period the RNZAF was administered through Operations Group at Auckland, at one time supervising Strike, Transport and Maritime Operations Wings, and Support Group at Wigram responsible for training and support.

The helicopter and former seaplane base RNZAF Hobsonville was sold to Housing New Zealand, and is being redeveloped as a residential area by the Hobsonville Land Company.

By 2003 the RNZAF was reduced to a total of 53 aircraft and 2, 523 personnel ( including civilian employees ).

It is most likely that the A-4Ks will be donated to museums or remain at RNZAF Base Woodbourne for training purposes for RNZAF Technicians, as the cost of refurbishing them ( estimated at $ 34 million ) was deemed too expensive by the government.

Due to disrupted supplies at Christchurch Airport an RNZAF fuel tanker was also despatched from Ohakea Air Base to supply these aircraft.

This was the single biggest movement of personnel and freight by the RNZAF in its history.

In 2010-11 No. 488 Wing RNZAF was also created.

It was an important base for the RAAF, RNZAF and USAAF.

Formation No. 2, numbering five aircraft, piloted by Flt Lt Joe McCarthy ( an American serving in the RCAF ), Pilot Officer Vernon Byers, Flt Lt Bob Barlow ( RAAF ), P / O Geoff Rice and Flt Lt Les Munro ( RNZAF ), was to attack the Sorpe.

This was later changed to Pram Point as it provided better access for offloading supplies from the Expedition ship HMNZS Endeavour and also allowed for the operation of the critical RNZAF Antarctic Flight on a nearby ice runway.

Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF was the ranking officer and one of 168 allied airmen imprisoned here in 1944.

42 Squadron of the RNZAF was formed at Rongotai ( Wellington ) in December 1943 to provide a communications service around New Zealand, initially using impressed civilian types.

It was briefly officially disbanded in 1946, but its aircraft continued with general purpose operations at RNZAF Base Ohakea ( near Bulls ).

To accommodate the reformed No. 2 Squadron RNZAF with A-4 Skyhawks at Ohakea in 1984, 42 Squadron moved to Whenuapai ) and absorbed the Andovers of No. 1 Squadron RNZAF which was disbanded.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

But the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort and security of a storm cellar.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

It passed through various hands and collections into the Royal Museum at Paris, and was engraved by the Chevalier Visconti.

A Serene Highness by birth, Ena, as she was known, was raised to Royal Highness status a month before her wedding to prevent the union from being viewed as unequal.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches.

* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.