Four of the nine were allocated to museums by Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and the fate of the remaining five remains unknown.
The Wigram museum is working with the Warbirds Over Wanaka Charitable Trust on the new visitor attraction that replaces Wanaka's former New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum.
Wigram secured two Skyhawks this week but neither were coming any further south than Christchurch, Wigram museum director Terese Angelo confirmed this week.
Dr Mapp said the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland and the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Arm Museum at Nowra, Australia, would also get a Skyhawk each.
The former New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum Trust applied for a Skyhawk when the Government announced its intention to give nine of 17 mothballed jets to museums. Ms Angelo said she was still waiting for information on whether a third Skyhawk could yet be made available to Wigram and placed in Wanaka.
Wigram has already made available an ex-RNZAF Vampire FB5 (already in Wanaka) and a Strikemaster (at present at Ohakea Museum).
Ms Angelo said the only information she had was that Wigram was getting a single-seater jet and a two-seater training jet for display at Wigram.
There were concerns about the care of the aircraft, which were large complicated structures and difficult to disassemble and put back together, she said.
"There has been ongoing discussion about how the others will be allocated but as you can imagine, lots of people have asked for them," she said.
There was no information yet on when the Strikemaster might arrive in Wanaka.
"It is not as complicated to move as a Skyhawk but there are some logistics to sort out and we will need some air force support to do that," Ms Angelo said.
