Old planes back to grace the skies
5 Feb, 2021 12:03 AM
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Fly DC3 Dakota will be here for flights over the area from Friday, February 19 to Sunday morning, February 21.
Napier Courier
Fly DC3 Dakota will be here for flights over the area from Friday, February 19 to Sunday morning, February 21.
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The Napier Aero Club is expecting two Boeing Stearman biplanes to arrive for the Art Deco weekend air event.
The annual Art Deco Festival weekend wouldn t be complete without Napier Aero Club s involvement in the preparation and organisation for the fly in air event.
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The Roaring 40s Harvard displays over the Marine Parade have become a large part of the festival and will be arriving on Thursday, February 18 for their first display over Hastings at 7 pm that evening.
Napier Art Deco festival airshow funding resolved
31 Jan, 2021 12:13 AM
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Planes flying over the Art Deco Festival, Napier, in 2020. Photo / Ian Cooper
Doug Laing is a senior reporter for Hawke s Bay Todaydoug.laing@nzme.co.nzHawkesBayToday The Napier Art Deco Trust is determined its annual festival in less than three weeks will be one of the best ever, despite some fears which were held over part of one of its major public attractions.
The assurances for the February 17-21 Art Deco Festival came from former Napier mayor Barbara Arnott just days after her first meeting as chairwoman, and amid some worries which had been held by the Napier Aero Club it could have to downsize its air show at Hawke s Bay Airport because of a funding issue.