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Air Travel (NZ), based on the West Coast of the South Island, was the first company to offer a scheduled service in 1934. To reach isolated areas its planes sometimes had to land on beaches at low tide. A horse, dogs, children and a few adults were on hand to greet this Fox Moth biplane when it landed at Bruce Bay on the southern West Coast in 1935.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection
Reference: WA-AVH-06-1; G
by Leo Lemuel White
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