Group. No. 4 Squadron Territorial Air Force pilots in front of a Grebe at RNZAF Station Wigram.
L-R: Flying Officer G Buckley, Flying Officer J Renton, Lieutenant J Scotland (Army), Flight Lieutenant W Nisbett, Flying Officer W Duffey, Flying Officer D Campbell, Plying Officer H Major, Flying Officer R Hudson, Captain WB Reekie (Army), Flying Officer FR Dix.
Names obtained from Print in the FR Dix personal collection.
3/4 rear view of Avro 504k G1965 after a landing accident. Unknown location.
Handwritten on an associated print "1st Territorial Air Force refresher course. Bill Parkes crash on 1st course first day. About 1923 - 25."
NB. The veracity of the above is questionable; Noel Vale's log book puts a similar crash mid-February, which is part way through the course (see WgG1312-73). Aircraft serial number doesn't match any Official lists of aircraft; Actual number is H1965 but it's unclear why or how the wrong letter was painted on the fuselage.
3/4 front view of an Avro 504k after a landing accident. Unknown location.
Handwritten on an associated print "1st Territorial Air Force refresher course. Bert Mercer crash on 1st course first day. About 1923 - 25."
NB. The veracity of the above is questionable; Noel Vale's log book puts a similar crash mid-February, which is part way through the course (see WgG1312-73).
Salvage party with the fuselage of Avro 504k, H1965. unknown location.
Handwritten on an associated print "Salvage party. | L-R: Merrin, Salmon, Doug Syme, Harry Crowder, Stan Simpson. | about 1923 - 1928."
3/4 front view of Avro 504k 1965 after a landing accident. Unknown location.
Handwritten on an associated print "1st Territorial Air Force refresher course. Noel Vale crash on 1st course first day. About 1923 - 25."
NB. The veracity of the above is questionable; Noel Vale's log book puts this crash mid-February, which is part way through the course. Aircraft serial number doesn't match any Official lists of aircraft.
Group of civilians on the airfield with a Avro 504k, H1966, from New Zealand Aero Transport Company, and a Bristol Fighter operating joyrides. Wigram Aerodrome.
Sign erected by the United States Marines. Bougainville. "So when you reach the 'isle of Japan', with our caps at a jaunty tilt, we'll enter the city of Tokyo, on the road the Seabees built. Third Marine Div. 2nd Raider Regt."
Maurice Buckley (right) and Harrington (left) in a Canterbury Aviation Company's Avro 504k, before flying to drop confetti on Captain Euan Dickson's wedding at St. Barnabas Church, Christchurch. Sockburn Aerodrome.
Three men involved with the first aerial crossing of Cook Strait on 25 August 1920.
All three men were part of the Canterbury Aviation Company. This photo was taken when the Company's assets were handed over to the New Zealand Permanent Air Force at Sockburn Aerodrome.
L-R: Euan Dickson (Chief Pilot), CH Hewlett (Deputy Chairman), JE Moore (Chief Mechanic).
Large group of children and adults gathered around Avro 504k H5241 'The Blazing Arrow', from the Canterbury Aviation Company, on Hokitika beach.
Harrington is believed to be sitting on the engine cowl.
See WgG2568-78 for a better reproduction of this image.
"Jim Moore and others, Wigram 1920"
Man climbing into the rear cockpit of an Avro 504k while others stand around. Believed to be at Sockburn Aerodrome.
Large group of children and adults gathered around Avro 504k H5241 'The Blazing Arrow', from the Canterbury Aviation Company, on Hokitika beach.
Harrington is believed to be sitting on the engine cowl.
Pilot and passenger climbing into an Avro 504k from the Canterbury Aviation Company. Sockburn Aerodrome.
Standing on the ground is believed to be CH Hewlett.
Unknown man, possibly Les Brake, standing beside Avro 504k, believed to be E9432 'High Jinks', from the Canterbury Aviation Company, on a beach near Gisborne.
Side view of an Avro 504k, believed to be E9432 'High Jinks' from the Canterbury Aviation Company, with Maori children gathered around, at Ruakokore, Bay of Plenty.
