Pilot Ian Pullen, pictured with wife Vicki, was killed in a hit and run in NSW while in Australia helping with bushfire fighting efforts in the Hunter Region.
A Givealittle page has been created to help bring hero Kiwi helicopter pilot Ian Pullen back to New Zealand and his family from Australia.
His family will travel to Australia tomorrow to bring back his body after he was struck by a car on Saturday morning in Glenridding, around 200km
north of Sydney.
The 44-year-old father of three was in Australia helping to fight bush fires.
The Givealittle page Bring Kiwi Chopperman Home has been created to help pay the "unexpected and overwhelming costs related to the incredibly tragic loss".
The page was created on Wednesday and had already received $6420 from 57 donors, and has an open goal.