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Built in 1937 this Lockheed 10A Electra aircraft was registered in New Zealand August 1946 as ZK-ALI, 'Koweka', for Union Airways (which later became the National Airways Corporation). It last flew for NAC in 1949, was cancelled from the official register in November 1953, and scrapped in New Plymouth in 1961. Prior to service in New Zealand it operated as VH-AAU in Australia.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
CA: Elmar Negative Collection: Notebook 1: F502
Date
circa 1946
Digitisation ID
2011G_ELMAR-3_005432
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North

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Taxonomy

Tags
aeroplane,
airport,
elmar studios,
transport,
zk-ali,
Community Tags
plane,

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