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
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
These RNZAF Skyhawks did aerial displays and a mock bombing of The Square during the Jubilee Celebrations. 92 floats took part at the Palmerston North City Centennial celebrations of 1971. Approx. 10,000 people were present at the event to celebra...
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Date: March 1971
Two men stand outside an airplane at Milson Airport.
Creator: Clarice Parlane
Date: 1950s
This photographs shows an air force hangar under construction at Ohakea Base.
Creator: Thomas Doherty
Place: Ohakea, Manawatu-Wanganui
Date: circa 1938 to circa 1939
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:
Date: November 10, 1956
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
This film shows a number of different aviation scenes, mainly from Palmerston North's Milson Airport and the Taieri Airfields (Dunedin). They were shot and compiled by Wally Smith. Wally Smith was born in 1910. He joined the NZBS in Dunedin and bo...
Creator: Wally Smith
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1946 to circa 1950