Image from the James Lloyd Findlay personal collection. Group. New Zealand Permanent Air Force cadet pilots course, in front of an Avro 504k at Wigram Aerodrome. L-R: Back; Sergeant WC Townsend, Sergeant FW Sorrell, Cadet Pilot WC Jenkins, Cadet Pilot LFJ Taylor, Cadet Pilot GE Watt, Cadet Pilot HST Weston, Cadet Pilot JM Buckeridge, Cadet Pilot CC Hunter, Cadet Pilot ES Henderson, Cadet Pilot J Goodheart, Sergeant WS Simpson. Front; Cadet Pilot M Wilkes, Lieutenant TJ Denton, Captain JL Findlay, Captain MW Buckley, Cadet Pilot IC McLaine.

3/4 rear view of Avro 504k, F9745, from The New Zealand Flying School, with some members of the public gathered around. Unknown date and location. Circa 1920s.

Group posing in front of an Avro 504k on the occasion of the handing over of Sockburn Aerodrome to the New Zealand Defence Department by the Canterbury Aviation Co. Airfield was then renamed Wigram. L-R: JE Moore, Mechanic. CW Hervey, Secretary. JC Mercer, Assistant Instructor. Captain Euan Dickson DSC DFC, Manager. CH Hewlett, Deputy Chairman. Colonel R Young CB CMG DSO, Officer Commanding the District. Captain TM Wilkes MC, Staff Officer Air Services, Major FCP Nicholl DSO. Captain LM Isitt, Officer Commanding Government Aerodrome.

Three men involved with the first aerial crossing of Cook Strait on 25 August 1920. L-R: Euan Dickson (Chief Pilot), C.H. Hewlett (Deputy Chairman), J.E. Moore (Chief Mechanic).

Three men involved with the first aerial crossing of Cook Strait on 25 August 1920. L-R: Euan Dickson (Chief Pilot), C.H. Hewlett (Deputy Chairman), J.E. Moore (Chief Mechanic).