Image from the Pat Ford personal collection. Wreckage of Dh86 Express after crashing at RNZAF Station Ohakea.

Image from the Alan Crighton personal collection. Air to air view of Union Airways Dh86 ZK-AEG 'Karoro' in flight over Auckland.

Image from the Norman Alfred Thomas Clark personal collection. 3/4 rear view of a Union Airways Dh86 with passengers standing around. Believed to be at Milson Aerodrome, Palmerston North.

Image from the Vivian Leonard Victor Crawshay personal collection. 3/4 front view of Union Airways DH86 Express ZK-AEF "Kotuku" at the civil area of RNZAF Station Wigram. Handwritten on the reverse "Union Airways DH. 86 Wigram 1938."

Image from the Francis Cameron Eichbaum personal album collection. Union Airways passenger aircraft in a hangar at RNZAF Station Ohakea. Dh86 ZK-AEH (left) and Dh89 ZK-AE? (right). Handwritten on the album page "R.N.Z.A.F. Ohakea 1939. Union Airways DH86 & 89."

Side view of Union Airways Dh86 ZK-AEG in a hangar at RNZAF Station Wigram. Believed to be after arrival in New Zealand from England.

Side view of Union Airways Dh86 ZK-AEG at RNZAF Station Wigram.

Union Airways Dh86 ZK-AEG 'Karoro' at RNZAF Station Wigram with members of the public gathered around and cars parked in the foreground. Taken after "the first service out of Milson airport, Palmerston North". The route taken was Palmerston North, Blenheim, Christchurch.

Front view of Dh86 Express, ZK-AEG 'Karoro', at RNZAF Station Wigram.

Image from the Foster personal album. "D.H.86 interior". Inside view, looking forward into the cockpit, of the cabin of a DH86 Express. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Wigram.

Image from the Foster personal album. "DH 86 Wigram". Motor vehicles parked in front of a fence with people looking on at the civil aviation area at RNZAF Station Wigram. In the background is Dh86 ZK-AEG 'Karoro'.

Image from the Foster personal album. "DH 86 Wigram 1938". 3/4 rear view of Dh86 ZK-AEG 'Karoro' on the ground at the civil aviation area, RNZAF Station Wigram.

Image from the Foster personal album. "DH 86 Wigram". 3/4 front view of Union Airways DH86 Express ZK-AEF "Kotuku" at the civil aviation area at RNZAF Station Wigram.

3/4 front view of DH86 Express, NZ553, '2'. Air Gunner and Observer School, RNZAF Station Ohakea.

Image from the RW Russell personal collection. "D.H.86". 3/4 front view of Union Airways DH86 ZK-AEH "Korimako" parked at the civil aviation area, RNZAF Station Wigram. This aircraft was impressed into the RNZAF (circa September 1939) as NZ554. Note: Original photograph is printed in reverse and is corrected here.

Informal group of WAAF Wireless Operators, holding parachute packs, standing in front of DeHavilland DH86 NZ553, at RNZAF Station Wigram. This is the first WAAF Wireless Operators course. January to August 1942.

"The Engineering Staff at Union Airways who converted the Dh86 Airliner." Group in front of a Dh 86, unknown location. L-R: Back; D MacGregor, W Hunter, F Hastings, K Plimmer, R Pearce, N Bartlett, C Jones, A Kimber, I King, A Cutler, R Edwards. Third Row; C Brownlie, W Bremner, T Gifford, R Symonds, J Atkinson, E Vowell, K LeCheminant, O Openshaw, I Jewett, H Hollis, T Walker, G Parkinson. P McGhee, M White (jr). Second Row; M White (snr), L Whinray, C Watson, O Gandy, J Campbell, L Mangham, D Smillie, A Fleming, G Forrest, J Howard, I Reading. Front; C Jones, L Shailer, SG Cosslett, AC Denholm, K Barker, R TaWharu, J McClymont, E McDonald, E Gill.

Two Dh86 Express aircraft, the back one is NZ552, on barges being towed up the river towards Nandi Aerodrome, Fiji.