• ALB2318313061
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Allan Mason Forbes Alexander personal album. Union Airways pilots AMF Alexander (left) and Ron Walton (right) at the steps of their Electra ZK-AGJ at Nelson airport. Handwritten in the image area "Ron Walton & self / First civil flight / 1945 / Wellington - Nelson." Alexander's log book has his first civil flight with a different first pilot and from Palmerston North o 27 March 1945. More research required.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Alexander
    Union Airways
    Nelson
    Electra
    ZK-AGJ
    Walton
  • MUS110095
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Mustang on the back of a truck being carried on a tank transporter from Clevedon to Ardmore aerodrome after being barged from RNZAF Station Hobsonville. Aircraftman 2 TG Nelson on the starboard wing.
    Nelson
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
    Mustang
    Ardmore
    Clevedon
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
  • MUS1101314
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    The Weekly News
    Portrait of Pilot Officer MK Nelson, from The Weekly News issue 27 January 1943, page 19.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    The Weekly News
    World War Two
    WW2
    portrait
    Nelson
  • 2017-017.91
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Group. No. 2 Squadron personnel at RNZAF Station Nelson. L-R: Back; unknown, Maxey, Spicer, Hardy-Tait. Front; Bush, Cohen, Fulton, Edwards.
    RNZAF
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Nelson
    No. 2 Squadron
    2 Sqn
    group
  • 2017-017.138
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Portrait of Wing Commander RJ Cohen AFC, Commanding Officer of No. 2 Squadron. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    Cohen
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Nelson
    No. 2 Squadron
    2 Sqn
    portrait
  • 2017-017.125
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Group of officers walking out of a hangar. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Nelson. Air Commodore RV Goddard (left), Air Commodore HWL Saunders (middle)(outgoing and incoming Chiefs of Air Staff) and Wing Commander RJ Cohen (2nd from right).
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Cohen
    RNZAF
    Chief of Air Staff
    CAS
    Goddard
    Saunders
  • 2017-017.126
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Group of officers standing beside a Dh89 Dragon. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Nelson. L-R: unknown, Wing Commander RJ Cohen, Air Commodore RV Goddard (outgoing Chief of Air Staff), Air Commodore HWL Saunders (incoming Chief of Air Staff), unknown.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Cohen
    RNZAF
    Nelson
    World War Two
    WW2
    Chief of Air Staff
    CAS
    Goddard
    Saunders
  • 2017-017.111
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. The Commanding Officer of No. 2 Squadron, Squadron Leader RJ Cohen (3rd from left, back row) with members of the rugby team at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    rugby
    sport
    Nelson
    Cohen
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • 2017-017.109
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Joseph Cohen personal collection. Personnel of No. 2 Squadron enjoying a beer on Christmas day at RNZAF Station Nelson. The Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader RJ Cohen, middle of sitting row. Handwritten on the reverse "Nelson | Xmas Day 1941".
    drinking
    Xmas
    Christmas
    2 Sqn
    No. 2 Squadron
    Nelson
    Cohen
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • PR339
    RNZAF
    High view of a parade at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    parade
  • PR346
    RNZAF
    Wing Commander RJ Sinclair (left) with Flying Officer CJ Allison. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    Allison
    Nelson
  • PR347
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Control Officer using an Aldis signaling lamp. Presumed to be RNZAF Station Nelson. See Contact magazine, September 1943, page 43.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
  • PR345
    RNZAF
    Wing Commander RJ Sinclair in the cockpit of a No. 2 Squadron Moth Minor at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Moth Minor
    No. 2 Squadron
    2 Sqn
    Nelson
    Sinclair
  • PR343
    RNZAF
    Squadron Leader JJ Busch (left) with Wing Commander RJ Sinclair of No. 2 Squadron. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    No. 2 Squadron
    2 Sqn
    Busch
    Sinclair
  • PR342
    RNZAF
    Mowing the airfield with a gang-mower towed behind a tractor. RNZAF Station, Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    MT
    Mechanical Transport
  • PR339A
    RNZAF
    High view of a parade at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Nelson
    parade
  • MUS0901746
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Group. RNZAF Station Nelson Rugby team. Wing Commander RJ Cohen, Commanding Officer (centre front)
    Nelson
    rugby
    sport
    group
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
  • MUS0901745
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Group. RNZAF Station Nelson Rugby team. Wing Commander RJ Cohen, Commanding Officer (centre front)
    Nelson
    rugby
    sport
    group
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
  • PR288
    RNZAF
    A group of Aerodrome Defence Unit personnel in full song during a leisure hour. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Nelson
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU
    recreation
    music
  • PR289
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit guards use a Browning machine-gun at gunnery practice. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    Nelson
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU
    weapons
  • PR287
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit guards in front of a bomb laden Hudson. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    Nelson
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU
    Hudson
  • PR286
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit construction party. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    Nelson
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU
  • PR284
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit guards on field maneuvers at RNZAF Station Nelson.
    Nelson
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU
    training
  • PR285
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit guards in front of a bomb laden Hudson. RNZAF Station Nelson.
    ADU
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    WW2
    World War Two
    RNZAF
    Nelson
    Hudson
  • PR282
    RNZAF
    Aerodrome Defence Unit spotter using binoculars. RNZAF Station, Nelson.
    Nelson
    RNZAF
    World War Two
    WW2
    Aerodrome Defence Unit
    ADU