Image from the Park family collection.
Informal portrait of William Park, caretaker of Sockburn aerodrome 1917 - 1944, in Wellington visiting the Centennial Exhibition at Rongotai.
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
High view of the De Havilland factory at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Handwritten on the reverse "Lyall Bay 1941. South Island in distance. De Havillands' factory - now the Wellington airport Terminal Building!!"
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
3/4 front view of Oxford NZ1262(?) with engines running at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Handwritten on the reverse "Maintenance and Repair Section. Wellington (early 1940s)"
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
Informal group of trainees in front of a Harvard at the Technical Training School at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Handwritten on the reverse "Flight Riggers 21st entry. Rongotai. February 1943."
Names on reverse: "McMorran, Pownell, Thompson, Turley, McLean, Sheaham, McLeod, Widgery, Roberts, Stanners, Walken, Minty, McLeod, Staines, Moyle, McNaught, Woodroffe, Wild, Renton."
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
Informal group of trainees in front of a Tiger Moth at the Technical Training School at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Handwritten on the reverse "Flight Riggers 21st entry. Rongotai. February 1943."
Signatures on reverse: McMorran, Pownell, Thompson, Turley, McLean, Sheahan, McLeod, Widgery, Roberts, Stanners, Walker, SC Minty, McLeod, Staines, Moyle, McNaught, Woodrofe, Wild, Renton, McNeil.
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
Interior view of the Tiger Moth assembly line at the De Havilland factory at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Serial numbers visible: NZ848, NZ1404, NZ849, NZ850.
Handwritten on the reverse "D.H. Factory. 1941. New Wellington Airport Terminal building."
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
Interior view of the Exhibition building with Tiger Moths and an Oxford at the Technical Training School, RNZAF Station Rongotai.
NZ778 at centre.
Handwritten on the reverse "Exhibition Building. Maintenance and Repair Section. Self just visible at side of monoplane behind starboard engine."
Image from the Stanley Cyril Minty personal collection.
Interior view of Tiger Moth wings and structure being assembled in the De Havilland factory at RNZAF Station Rongotai.
Handwritten on the reverse "Self, white overalls, at rear centre behind girl at wing minus aileron"