tred: Small correction to your last post, the Ohakea PSR did not belong to the RNZAF, it was owned, serviced, and operated by Airways.
yes, sorry your quite correct, bad choice of words on my part, what I should have said was that the airforce paid for it to be there and once the strikewing was shut down - didn't feel there was a need for it for their requirements and so stopped paying for the use of it. Airways then sold it offshore, can't remember where.