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

 Gypsy Moth aircraft as an honor guard over the newly arrived "Tainui", after it completed an International Air Race. 
De Havilland Rapide aircraft flew to Palmerston North after competing in an Air Race, the final part of the fl...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 15, 1934

 De Havilland Rapide at Milson aerodrome after it's epic flight from England to Australia as part of an International Air Race. The plane then flew on to Palmerston North, this part of the flight taking 12 hours and 9 minutes. It was the...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 15, 1934

 Gypsy Moth aircraft as an honor guard over the newly arrived "Tainui", after it completed an International Air Race. 
De Havilland Rapide aircraft flew to Palmerston North after competing in an Air Race, the final part of the fl...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 15, 1934

De Havilland Rapide at Milson aerodrome after it's epic flight from England to Australia as part of an International Air Race. The plane then flew on to Palmerston North, this part of the flight taking 12 hours and 9 minutes. It was the first...

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 15, 1934

Photo of Union Airways De Havilland DH 86 passenger and mail aircraft at Milson Aerodrome in circa 1936.
Named Korimako, registration ZK-AEH
Photo taken by Josie Griffiths with her Box Brownie Camera.

Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          1936

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 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

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

This photograph is part of a series taken by Thomas Doherty a Steel Construction Worker. The hangar shown here now has the concrete roof and walls in place. Construction of 'barrack' type buildings appears to be underway in the foreground.

Creator:      Thomas Doherty
Place:          Ohakea, Manawatu
Date:          circa 1938 to circa 1939

These photographs were possibly taken in the Gillespies Line area. The photographer is unknown. This was one of the first planes to visit Palmerston North.

Date:          1922 to 1923

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

This photograph shows the damaged "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 several we...

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

M H Oram, later Sir Matthew Oram, Member of Parliament, first President of the Manawatu Aero Club, speaking at the opening of the Club's landing strip. The airstrip was on the site of the present day Palmerston North airport, which began operating...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Milson Airport, Palmerston North
Date:          December 5, 1931

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 aircraft served with the RNZAF as NZ3555 from 20 August 1945 and was re-registered as a civilian aircraf...

Creator:      Elmar Studios
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1947

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 ...

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

The National Airways Corporation aeroplane ZK-APB ‘Popotea’, made by the Douglas Aircraft Co. (US), sits on the grass at what is thought to be Milson Airport. ZK-APB was the first NAC DC-3 to be properly fitted out as an airliner, rather than jus...

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

The interior of a Dakota aeroplane looking from the cockpit to the rear of the plane. A Red Cross first aid kit can be seen to the right of the toilet and the overhead luggage areas have no cupboard doors.

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

The interior of a Dakota aeroplane looking from the rear to the cockpit.

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

The Skyhawk, piloted by Flight Lieutenant John Nicholas Dick, was on a routine exercise in the Colenso area of the Ruahine ranges when it crashed on March 25, 1981. Flight Lieutenant Dick was killed in the crash. This photograph shows what remain...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Near Taihape, Rangitikei Region
Date:          February 26, 1981

Built in 1937 this Lockheed 10A Electra aircraft was registered in New Zealand August 1946 as ZK-ALI, 'Koweka', for Union Airways (which later became the National Airways Corporation). It last flew for NAC in 1949, was cancelled from the official...

Creator:      Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1946

These photographs were possibly taken in the Gillespies Line area. The photographer is unknown. This was one of the first planes to visit Palmerston North.

Date:          1922 to 1923

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

Flying over the Manawatū windmills in a Cesna airplane.

Creator:      Daniel Farley
Date:          2009

This photograph is part of a series taken by Thomas Doherty a Steel Construction Worker. The hangar shown here now has the roof supports in place.

Creator:      Thomas Doherty
Place:          Ohakea, Manawatu-Wanganui
Date:          circa 1938 to circa 1939