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Palmerston North's first Air Ambulance, a Mark III, was acquired from the Government when excess planes were distributed at the end of WWII. The plane started its service in 1948 and flew as far as Christchurch and Dunedin. One use of the aircraft was for getting spinal injured patients to Christchurch hospital for treatment, not possible before this plane started its service.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
IMCA Digital Archive
Date
circa 1948
Digitisation ID
2010P_IMCA-DigitalLibrary_004483
Held In
"IMCA Digital Archive"

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Taxonomy

Tags
aeroplane,
flight,
medical,
photographs,
transport,
world war two,
zk-ara,
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