Fellow residents at Whangarei's Jane Mander Retirement Village joked that Ian Williams didn't have to jump out of a plane 9000 feet up to prove that he was a man.
But the 90-year-old says that wasn't the reason he leapt from a plane above the Bay of Islands last Sunday - it was just to tick something else off his bucket list and a continuation of his latest adventures.
Mr Williams was heading to the Bay of Islands last Sunday with daughter Robyn Low and her husband Don so that Robyn could do a skydive that she had been given for her birthday.
"I suppose it (having a jump) was in the back of my mind, but when we got up there and I saw all these people coming down from the sky I thought 'there's nothing much to that, I can do it,' so decided to give it a go," Mr Williams said.
"I really enjoyed it."