• 1980-010
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Douglas Verner Syme personal collection. Line up of NZPAF aircraft with ground staff at Wigram Aerodrome. Bristol Fighter x3, Dh9, Dh4 x2. Avro 504 x5 behind.
    NZPAF
    New Zealand Permanent Air Force
    Sockburn
    Wigram
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Syme
    Bristol Fighter
    F2b
    Dh9
    Dh4
    Avro 504
  • MUS010025
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Group of the first nine graduates of the Canterbury Aviation Company, in front of a Caudron aircraft. Sockburn Aerodrome. L-R: JC Mercer (7), JE Stevens (3), EAF Wilding (1), CM Hill - Instructor, ET Sutherland (8), CJ McFadden (4), J Mackie - Engineer, HN Hawker (2), LA Limbrick (5), EJ Orr (6), R Brodie (9).
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    training
    Caudron
    World War One
    WW1
  • MUS100111
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Ronald Glanville MacDonald personal album collection. Three trainee pilots relax on a small sofa on the grass in front of 'Block 7' (visible behind) at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    World War One
    WW1
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Wigram
    Block 7
    MacDonald
  • MUS0900418
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Portrait of John Terence Tosswill, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate number 128. Sockburn aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Sockburn
    portrait
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    World War One
    WW1
    Tosswill
  • MUS0900421
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Portrait of HA Stark, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate number 84. Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    CAC
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    Sockburn
    WW1
    World War One
    portrait
    Stark
  • MUS0900420
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Portrait of Noel Vale, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate number 72. Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Sockburn
    portrait
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    World War One
    WW1
    Vale
  • MUS0900419
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Portrait of RG McDonald, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate number 123. Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Sockburn
    portrait
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    World War One
    WW1
    McDonald
  • WgF17
    RNZAF
    Canterbury Aviation Company aircraft outside hangars at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Wigram
    Sockburn
    Canterbury aviation Company
    CAC
    Caudron
    Bleriot
    hangar
  • 2009-691.1
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Harold Lord Piper personal collection. Portrait of Harold Lord Piper from his Aviator's certificate. Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 166.
    Piper
    WW1
    World War One
    RAF
    RFC
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
  • 1996-108.1a
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Arthur Gordon Webster personal collection. Portrait of Arthur Gordon Webster from his Aviator's certificate. Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 54.
    RFC
    RAF
    World War One
    WW1
    Webster
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
  • MUS1200116
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Two women and two children on the front porch of Bill Park's house. Wigram Aerodrome. Bill Park was the caretaker for the Canterbury Aviation Company and the New Zealand Permanent Air Force.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Park
    Women
    children
    Sockburn
  • WgG11891-62
    RNZAF
    Unknown pilot sitting in the cockpit cupola of a Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11892-62
    RNZAF
    Group of people gathered in front of two Canterbury Aviation Company Caudrons at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11893-62
    RNZAF
    Three men and a boy standing in front of a Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron in a hangar at Sockburn Aerodrome. Bert Mercer (far right), Cecil Hill (second from right). John Mackie(?)
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
    Mercer
    Mackie
  • WgG11889-62
    RNZAF
    Two Canterbury Aviation Company Caudrons on the airfield at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11890-62
    RNZAF
    (believed to be) Bert Mercer (left) with another man standing beside an overturned Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
    Mercer
  • WgG11887-62
    RNZAF
    Ground to air view of a Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron flying over Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11888-62
    RNZAF
    Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron parked on the airfield with a crashed Caudron in the background. Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11884-62
    RNZAF
    Unknown pilot sitting in the cockpit cupola of a Canterbury Aviation Company's Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11885-62
    RNZAF
    Two pupil pilots (?) pose on the starboard wheels of a Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11886-62
    RNZAF
    Two unknown people sitting in the cockpit of a Canterbury Aviation Company two-seat Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
  • WgG11883-62
    RNZAF
    Two Canterbury Aviation Company student pilots (far right) with the Chief Flying Instructor Cecil Hill (second from left) and an Army Officer, in front of a Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
    Sockburn
    Caudron
    Hill
  • MUS030981
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Water colour by Louis Neville. Aerial oblique view of the early Canterbury Aviation Company hangars at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    artwork
    Neville
    oblique
    Sockburn
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC
  • MUS0311211
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Portrait of JL Davis, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 24. Sockburn Aerodrome.
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War One
    WW1
    portrait
    Davis
    Sockburn
  • 1993-026.1
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Doug Fyfe personal collection. CA Fyfe, Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 39, sitting in a Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Fyfe
    World War One
    WW1
    Sockburn
    Caudron
    Canterbury Aviation Company
    CAC