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TEAL flying boat

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TEAL flying boat

Standing on a Solent flying boat at Wellington’s Evans Bay, Mr Dobson (left) of Wellington radio station 2YA interviews chief engineer G. V. Brann of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) in December 1950. The airline ran a service to Sydney from Mechanics Bay in Auckland, but later they also operated from Evans Bay in Wellington.

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Peter Aimer, Aviation – International destinations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6582/teal-flying-boat (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Aimer, published 2 March 2009.