Air Force Museum of New Zealand

If you’ve got a hankering to indulge your passion for flight, this past winner of Best New Zealand Attraction is your place. Two hours will give you a good overview of flight simulators, the history hall, and displays of planes—everything from Spitfires and Skyhawks to Tiger Moths. There’s an excellent 1-hour Restoration Tour, which takes you inside two hangars not normally open to visitors, where you get to see the restoration of an Airspeed Oxford, a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, a Vickers Vilderbeest MKIII, and 13 other aircraft. They also have a special kids’ tour that runs on weekends and during school holidays at 11:15am.

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