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

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

ZK_AFD was an important Lockheed Electra 10a, built in 1937. It was often the first plane to fly new national routes in the 1930s and 1940s. Eight aircraft eventually operated in New Zealand - seven for Union Airways/NAC and one for Trans Island A...

Creator:      Bruce Watt Photography
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1950