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Flashback: The first scheduled air service

Air Travel (NZ) operated for 33 years on the West Coast.

DH83 Fox Moth ZK-ADI was restored and is at the Mandeville Aviation Museum.

Peter Owens Wed, 30 Nov 2022

The country’s first scheduled air service did not operate until 1934. It was not based at Auckland or at any of the major centres, but at a very basic airfield near Hokitika on the West Coast.

Life was tough for farmers in South Westland and they still lived the life of pioneers. South of Ross and

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Peter Owens Wed, 30 Nov 2022
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