Biography: Walsh, Austin Leonard and Walsh, Vivian Claude

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Websites

Museum of Transport and Technology

Explore more content related to the Walsh family at the Museum of Transport and Technology.

Off the ground

Watch the documentary Off the ground (1982) about the Walsh brothers and the other pioneer aviators on NZonScreen.

Bibliography

Moyle, T. The first: the Walsh brothers and the aeroplane days of Edwardian New Zealand. Auckland, 2020

Harvie, E. F. George Bolt: pioneer aviator: foundations of a future. Wellington, 1974

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Terry Moyle. 'Walsh, Austin Leonard and Walsh, Vivian Claude', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021, updated May 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/129142/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).