Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:13 pmI think I've found the holy grail of websites for New Zealand aviation history and aviation firsts!
If you want routes for old airlines, first flights out of airports on their opening days, first routes for a type in NZ, then this is the site you want to save as a favourite
An example of something from the webpage:
1965, 24 November
ON THE OPENING OF AUCKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
At Mangere, NZNAC transferred its operations there from Whenuapai. The first NAC aircraft to depart from Mangere was a Friendship on the Nelson service, followed by a Viscount to Christchurch and a DC-3 to Whangarei.
Here is the webpage.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/wclark/index.html
It doesn't work properly in Firefox, and has some glitches in the latest Explorer, but it is still quite usable. Hope this helps with your retro AI, or just any historic flights you'd like to recreate.
If you want routes for old airlines, first flights out of airports on their opening days, first routes for a type in NZ, then this is the site you want to save as a favourite
An example of something from the webpage:
1965, 24 November
ON THE OPENING OF AUCKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
At Mangere, NZNAC transferred its operations there from Whenuapai. The first NAC aircraft to depart from Mangere was a Friendship on the Nelson service, followed by a Viscount to Christchurch and a DC-3 to Whangarei.
Here is the webpage.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/wclark/index.html
It doesn't work properly in Firefox, and has some glitches in the latest Explorer, but it is still quite usable. Hope this helps with your retro AI, or just any historic flights you'd like to recreate.