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Central Flying School is the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) unit which is responsible for training the force's flight instructors. It was established at the start of World War II as the Flying Instructors School and assumed its current name 1941. The unit was stationed at RNZAF Base Wigram from 1945 until 1993 when it moved to RNZAF Base ...
When the New Zealand Permanent Air Force was formed in June 1923, war surplus Avro 504K and Bristol F2B Fighters transferred from Britain were used for training purposes, supplemented from 1929 by de Havilland Gypsy Moths and replaced from 1931 by Hawker Tomtits and Avro 626s. A single two seat Gloster Grebe provided conversion training on that ...
Alwyn Gordon Vette ONZM (9 July 1933 – 9 August 2015) was a New Zealand airline captain best known for his involvement in the Cessna 188 Pacific rescue and his research into the cause of the Air New Zealand Flight TE901 crash. He spent five years in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and 55 years as a commercial pilot. [1]
The New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association (NZALPA) is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents commercial pilots and air traffic controllers. NZALPA is affiliated with the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations and the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations.
6.2 New Zealand Embedded Squadrons in the Royal Air ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of past and present squadrons of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The New Zealand Government donated six Avro 504 K's (Gnome engines), three sets of sea plane floats, and two D.H.9s after the Armistice. [2] On 16 December 1919 the School ran the first official Air Mail in New Zealand from Auckland to Dargaville, with George Bolt as pilot and Leo Walsh as passenger. [2]
Sunair remained grounded for 203 [4] days and was finally granted permission to fly again in April 2018, by NZ CAA. The first service resumed [4] in its own right was the doctor service between Whangārei and Kaitaia, which Sunair had been able to continue to operate using leased aircraft. Scheduled services were offered again from 28 May 2018 ...
Tasman Empire Airways Limited (1940–1965), better known by its acronym TEAL, is the former name of Air New Zealand. [1] [2]TEAL was formed by the Intergovernmental Agreement for Tasman Sea Air Services (also known as the Tasman Sea Agreement), which is a treaty signed by the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in London on 10 April 1940. [3]