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National Airways Corporation aircraft

National Airways Corporation aircraft

The New Zealand National Airways Act 1945 established a single domestic airline – the National Airways Corporation (NAC). This photograph, taken in 1949 at Paraparaumu airport, shows two NAC Lockheed Lodestars (front and left) and two DC3s (rear and right).

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Peter Aimer, Aviation – Government intervention, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6596/national-airways-corporation-aircraft (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Peter Aimer, published 2 March 2009.

Comments

John Shennan
26 March 2015
In the early 1950my parents had a beach house at Raumati ,Glen Road . On the property was a lead in light to guide the aircraft in at night to Parparaumu Airport . I recall watching the DC3`S Come over and the twin tailed Hudsons.I notice in the recent publication celebrating 75 years of Air New Zealand that the Hudson is not listed in the fleet 1940 -2015. Is there a reason for this ?? Regards John