This booklet was produced by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. It argues the case that Palmerston North's Milson Airport should have been the home to the Trans-Tasman Air Terminal due to the city's status as the "geographical centre of New Zealand" ...
Creator: Junior Chamber of Commerce
Date: November 1944
Certificate reads, "To commemorate the introduction of NAC's Boeing 737 services to Palmerston North
This is to certify that: Sean Monaghan
flew on the first passenger jet airliner to use Palmerston North Airport, an NAC Boeing 737 Twin-jet, on S...
Creator: NAC
Date: 1975
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
This image was taken for Photorama pictorial magazine and was published in the September 1960 edition.
Caption: “This happy group was photographed at Milson Airport on the occasion of Cr. Dearsley’s departure for England to attend a Boy’s Brigade...
Creator: Frank Goldingham
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: September 1960
This image was taken for a story that ran in the Manawatū Evening Standard on 2 October 1963. Eartha Kitt, a celebrated singer of the time, was famous for her kittenish voice. Upon her arrival in the city, probably on 30 September, she was welco...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: 1963
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
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
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 26 February, 1964. "R.H. Horsley, the Manawatu and New Zealand All Black lock, received a warm welcome on his arrival at Milson yesterday. Pleased to be home after the t...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 April 1958, page 9: "Another exhibition of precision flying was seen at the flying display at the opening of the Milson Airport on Saturday by the R.N.Z.A.F. Vampire ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: April 21, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 April 1958, page 6: "Seen after a smooth landing on the new hard runway at Milson Airport today are some of the 24 passengers from the National Airways Corporation's ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 6 April, 1959. "First off the Viscount when it arrived on its inaugural flight from Harewood this afternoon at Milson Airport was two-year-old Aubrey Altken, from Dunedi...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1959-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 4 February, 1964. "Two mobile cranes lift the 6-ton top of the new control tower at Milson Airport. The top was then lowered on to four uprights. The operation took less...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1964-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 June, 1959. "Winifred Atwell and her husband, Mr L. Levisohn, arrived at the Palmerston North airport today. The couple are seen leaving the aircraft."
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1959-06-11T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 April 1958, page 6: "Seen shaking hands after an inaugural landing of a commercial aircraft on the new sealed runway at Milson Airport today is the Mayor (Mr. W.B. Te...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date: April 14, 1958
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 8 January, 1959. "A party of 17 Amercian woolgrowers paid a short visit to the city today in the course of a tour through New Zealand to study wool development in this c...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-01-08T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 24 November, 1959. “The lighting on the second half of the Palmerston North Airport runway will be completed soon and the full runway will be ready for day and night lan...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-11-24T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 12 August, 1959. "Dr Danie Craven (centre) being welcomed at Milson Airport yesterday. With him from left to right are Mr C. S. Hogg, the chairman of the New Zealand Ru...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-08-12T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 August, 1959. "The Standard IV children of the West End School are seen boarding the Viscount yesterday for Christchurh, where they will be staying for a week. They ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-08-25T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1st December 1965 "Dr. Anjana Mugar (right), a member of the Mahastra Legislative Assembly, and Mr. Harbans Lal, the Speaker of the House in the Punjab Legislative Assem...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Milson, Palmerston North
Date: November 29, 1965
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 3
0th November 1965 "Mr. and Mrs. P.T. Ryan and their children, Martin and Jane, on their arrival at Palmerston North Airport. They had flown from Fiji on the first DC-8...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 27, 1965
This image was not published in The Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on an unknown date. [A smartly dressed man reaches into his inner coat pocket.]
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 1964
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1945
Date: circa 1950
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
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Palmerston North on Saturday February 26 1977. They flew in and out by aeroplane.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: February 26, 1977
This NAC Skyliner is shown on the runway of Milson Airport. The airport was established in 1936, on the site of the Palmerston North Aero Club.
Creator: Maurice Thompson
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: March 10, 1964
Aerial view of machinery working on the runway. Beyond can be seen the city of Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
A large tar seal machine, the first of its kind to be built in New Zealand, was used in the resealing of the runway at Milson Airport, Palmerston North.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Airport Drive, Milson, Palmerston North
Date: February 1963