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
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
A film believed to have been taken by Rod Matheson depicting areas visited by plane and car in Zealand during the 1960's
The index with the film says it includes ""Greenmeadows Kiwi, Flight to Auckland via New Plymouth, Return by car, floods at R...
Date: 1960s
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
Repairing the wing of Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cross" aircaft with 3-ply wood in a Palmerston North Agricultural and Pastoral showground building in Waldegrave Street. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and crew of the 'Southern Cross', a Fokker F. VI...
Creator: T C Benfell
Place: The Showgrounds. Waldegrave Street, Palmerston North
Date: February 1933
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
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 November 1958: "Flight Sergeant ("Mac") Downie is interested in people and in meals. His work in providing sustenance for over 40 persons on the North Island flight w...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: November 20, 1958
"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
The aircraft was a 90 h.p. de Havilland DH6 owned by the Walsh Brothers of the New Zealand Flying School of Auckland, and piloted 23 year old Captain Richard Russell (at right with back to the camera). The aircraft landed at "Gillespie's Paddock",...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1920
This plane was a 90hp de Havilland aircraft, owned by the Walsh brothers of Kohimarama, Auckland and piloted by 23 year old Captain Richard Russell. It landed in a farm paddock on the corner of Gillespies Line and Boundary Road (now Tremaine Avenu...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 31, 1920
The first International Agricultural Aviation Show was held at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, 9 - 10th November, 1956. The aeroplane shown here is possibly a Cessana Model 180. The show attracted thousands of spectators and featured flying disp...
Creator: H Newth
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 9, 1956 to November 10, 1956
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
Darby West was, at 18 years of age, the test pilot of Alexander Radford’s aeroplane, inspired by the American Lincoln Sports 1921 and built in the front room of his house in Marne Street during the 1930s. The flight was run from Milson Airport, Pa...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1940
Manuscript written by Doug Turner of Palmerston North. Doug Turner , born 1931, has spent most of his life in the Manawatu area, and developed an interest in aviation at an early age. He describes his time in the Air Training Corp., through w...
Creator: Douglas Turner
Date: 2013
Fly-pass of aircraft. The first International Agricutural Aviation Show was held at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, 9 - 10th November, 1956. Over 60 aircraft attended and a crowd of 2000 were entertained with a fly-pass of 64 planes.
Creator: H Newth
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: November 1956
Possibly a Bell model 47 helicopter. The first International Agricutural Aviation Show was held at Milson Airport, Palmerston North, 9 - 10th November, 1956. Over 60 aircraft attended and a crowd of 2000 were entertained with a fly-pass of 64 planes.
Creator: H Newth
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: November 1956
Ohakea Air Force Base was constructed on land near Bulls in the Manawatu, 1937 to 1939. It was built in anticipation of the arrival of bombers, ordered for delivery in October 1939. The initial construction included housing an...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Pukenui Rd, Ohakea
Date: circa 1939
The building was constructed in the late 1940s, and was completely modernised in 1976. Before the merger of Air New Zealand and the National Airways Corporation (NAC) in 1979 the building was occupied by NAC.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Princess and Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: November 30, 1979
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
Milson Aerodrome, Palmerston North, became the headquarters of Union Airways (later merged with National Airways Corporation which became Air New Zealand) when the Palmerston North – Dunedin service was inaugurated 15 January 1936. The three Unio...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: January 15, 1936
C. T. P. Ulm flew to New Zealand from Australia in an Avro-built Fokker, called "Faith in Australia", 3 December 1933. Accompanying Ulm on this inaugural flight were his wife Mrs Ulm and his secretary Miss K. Rogers, who were the first two women t...
Creator: Snapshots Unlimited
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: 1934