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Early airmail flight

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Early airmail flight

After the First World War, several airlines were keen to provide passenger and airmail services within New Zealand. In this photograph a mailbag is handed to the pilot of a Canterbury Aviation Company plane, before an attempted first airmail flight between Nelson and Wellington in November 1921. The flight never reached its destination, being forced to turn back to Motueka.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Peter Aimer, Aviation – An aviation industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6570/early-airmail-flight (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Aimer, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.