Avro Avian aircraft at Milson aerodrome. Early 1930's, Goodwin Chichester Company.
Wings displayed in the folded back position to show the easy storage capabilities of the aircraft.
Photo taken by Josie Griffiths with her Box Brownie ca...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1930s

The Miles Hawk, "Spirit of Manawatu" at Milson Aerodrome. This plane swooped in over the enthusiastic crowd at 175 miles per hour at an alititude of 100 feet to much applause!
Photo taken by Josie Griffiths, with her Box Brownie camera, on...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 15, 1934

Foreground left in image is Len Mangham's Monocoupe 70 aircraft, based at Milson. At rear is the visiting Avro 618 TEN from Australia, named the "Faith in Australia", boasting its newly fitted 3 x 330 horsepower Wright Whirlwind Radial engine...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 10, 1934

Douglas DC-3 ZK-APA aircraft [Puweto], thought to have been taken at Milson Airport, with the Royal Mail insignia panted near the cockpit.This airplane was used for military and civilian purposes. This photograph was almost certainly taken after 1...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1940s

This photograph shows the damage done to the "Southern Cross" when it landed at Milson Airport, Palmerston North. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, were delayed in Palmerston North for...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.

Caption: “Miss Helen Wilson with airhostess Miss Sargeant on the steps of the N.A.C. plane which took her on the first step of her journey to A...

Creator:      Frank Goldingham
Place:          Milson, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1960

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.

In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...

Creator:      Television Production Centre, Massey University
Date:          June 20, 1994

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.

In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1994

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry.

In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perr...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          June 20, 1994

"A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson.

00:00 - 4:15 - 'City of Wheels'

4:16 - 815 - Family images. The film cannister index reads: ""Rachel, Judy. Tony, 277 College Street, the Clothiers, Bill Davis, Jim Hollis, Cat Mercer, Moving ...

Creator:      Rod Matheson
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

Kingsford Smith visited Palmeston North as part of a tour around New Zealand. Repairs to his aeroplane were necessary after the 'Southern Cross' was damaged when taxiing to a halt at Milson Aerodrome on Saturday 4 Feb 1933. The damaged wing was re...

Creator:      T C Benfell
Place:          The Showgrounds. Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

One of the world’s aviation pioneers, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (Smithy) landed at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, 10 September 1928 just a few months after he and Charles Ulm made the first crossing of the Pacific in the “Southern Cross”. Pi...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          September 10, 1928

The 'Southern Cross', flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, shortly before its departure from Milson Aerodrome. The Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft was delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after its wing was damaged during taxiin...

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

The 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, was delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after its wing was damaged during taxiing at the Milson Aerodrome 4 February 1933. It was repaired by voluntary labour at the A & P Associat...

Creator:      T C Benfell
Place:          The Showgrounds, Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

Charles Kingsford Smith damaged his aircraft when taxiing at 5mph along the Milson Aerodrome runway before take off. The left wheel sank axle-deep in a boggy patch of ground. The left wing and port propellor were damaged taking several weeks to be...

Creator:      G F Framjee [?]
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          February 4, 1933

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, were delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after the aeroplane's wing was damaged during taxiing at Milson Aerodrome 4 February 1933. Mr T C B...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

Sightseers view the damaged 'Southern Cross' aircraft at Milson Airport. The wing of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s famous aircraft was damaged while the aircraft was taxiing to a halt at the aerodrome 4 February 1933. The wing was repaired at an ...

Creator:      T C Benfell
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

The engine of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's aeroplane at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, being removed for repair. Kingsford Smith and his crew of the Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft were delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after the a...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VII Trimotor aircraft, were delayed in Palmerston North for several weeks after the aeroplane's wing was damaged during taxiing at Milson Aerodrome 4 February 1933.

Creator:      Snapshots Unlimited
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          February 1933

"Karoro" a DH86 airliner was owned and operated by Union Airways out of Milson Airport, Palmerston North. A commercial air service began between Palmerston North and Dunedin in 1936. This photograph may have been taken at the inauguration of the s...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1936

Taking to the air is Darby West, test piloting Alexander Radford's home built plane, a modified version of the American Lincoln Sports 1921, at Milson Airport. See Manawatu Evening Standard 23 May 1975, p 10-11 for more information.

Darby (David...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          1940

The first International Agricultural Aviation Show was held at Milson Airport, Palmerston North. Over 60 aircraft attended from all over New Zealand, and a crowd of 2,000 were entertained with a flypast of 64 planes. It attracted thousands of spec...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          November 9, 1956 to November 10, 1956

A Boeing 737 at Milson Airport with the Cargo depot (left) and the terminal building behind.

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          February 23, 1981

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 aircraf...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1948

Aroha Clifford was the first pilot trained by the Canterbury Aero Club in 1928. She may have been New Zealand’s first woman pilot.

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson Airport?, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1970 to circa 1999

National Airways Corporation DC3s parked in front of Aerodrome Control at Milson Airport, Palmerston North. Milson Airport was established in 1936, on the site of the Palmerston North Aero Club

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          1960s

A photograph in the same set as this was published September 1928 in the Manawatu Daily Times over the news heading "Steering a Plane". The caption underneath reads, "The Southern Cross at Sockburn - a photograph specially taken showing the huge w...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Sockburn, Christchurch
Date:          September 1928

A photograph in the same set as this was published September 1928 in the Manawatu Daily Times over the news heading "Steering a Plane". The caption underneath reads, "The Southern Cross at Sockburn - a photograph specially taken showing the huge w...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Sockburn, Christchurch
Date:          September 1928

Milson Airport stands on the outskirts of Palmerston North. It was established in 1936. Through the trees can be seen the control tower. Printed in 'The Guardian' 24 September 1975.

Creator:      Manawatu Guardian
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          September 1975

The plane on the right is the same as that in 2014N_Av42_009527. Milson Airport was established in 1936, on the site of the Palmerston North Aero Club.

Creator:      Bruce Watt Photography
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          1950