New Zealand

C-130 Hercules: Built For New Zealand 

Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules has proudly served the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) for more than 50 years.

From supporting critical humanitarian missions in the wake of natural disaster to delivering much-needed supplies to the Antarctic, the RNZAF’s C-130 fleets is one of the most-tasked and most dynamic in the region.

While New Zealand’s C-130 fleet is a national asset, it has true global reach. As the C-130 is the airlifter of choice for 69 nations, RNZAF Hercules crews often partner with other Hercules operators to support coalition peacekeeping and training missions. Close to home and far away, the RNZAF’s C-130 fleet has a worldwide presence.

Given the terrain and mission demands it faces, New Zealand requires a tactical airlifter that is versatile, powerful and reliable. That aircraft is the C-130 Hercules.

The C-130 Hercules: built for New Zealand.  

Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)

MRO provides services through teams based at Trentham, Waiouru, Linton and Burnham. These include:

• Fleet maintenance and automotive repair to both military and commercial equipment
• Weapons repair of small arms, support weapons and light guns
• Electronics and instrument repair
• General engineering and fabrication
• Collision repair and paint
• Automotive drive line components, engine reconditioning and dyno testing
• Apprentice training in support of core customers across various trade groups

Managed Fleet Utilisation (MFU)

We provide a Managed Fleet Utilisation service to maximise equipment availability through the consolidation, management and husbandry of NZDF owned equipment. Responsibilities include:

• preventative and scheduled maintenance
• repairs
• management of the Complete Equipment Schedule (CES)
• maintenance of compliance to both NZDF legislative and commercial standard

Engineering & Special Projects

A capability focused on the design and build of specialist vehicles for NZ Police, NZ Customs Services and other government departments, including:

• Various types of vehicles for NZ Police, from pods in the back of vehicles to design and manufacture of a specialist body onto the back of a rolling cab and chassis

Simulation Services

We provide a wide range of managed simulation services affording customers an end to end solution in both live firing and simulation experiences. LM NZ provides turnkey solutions that use customer-owned assets or LM NZ simulation devices to provide cost effective and efficient training experiences.

Warehousing and Distribution

We provide end to end turnkey warehousing and distribution capability to NZDF, NZ Police and other customers.

Professional and Managed Services

We provide services and expertise to our customers through innovative logistics solutions which provide transformational outcomes, through leveraging the extensive capability, technology and expertise of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Our local expertise and significant international experience assists customers through technical and best-practice logistics consultancy to implement ‘smart’ logistic solutions. We have the local capability to provide professional staff for project management, as well as consultancy for business and technical analysis, requirements definition and software design and development.