Air New Zealand - Celebrating 75 years of flying

ZK-AMM Ararangi landing. This plane was a Short S.45 Solent Mk4 and carried 45 passengers and 8 crew. Circa 1949.

Air New Zealand archive.

Air New Zealand - Celebrating 75 Years of Flying

From delving through daring trailblazers and inventors of the first flying machines to discovering we were the first airline in the world to boil water, our fascination with flying and the history of made this exhibition extremely popular.

We also explored fashion in the skies online, and Air New Zealand brought the cockpit of one of their Boeing 737s onsite, giving visitors the opportunity to take photos with the hashtag, #posewiththenose.

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Flight 37? Fun day at the Auckland Museum checking out the Air New Zealand exhibit. #airnz #airponts #posewiththenose

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Mar 25, 2016 at 5:14pm PDT

 

#posewiththenose #Auckland #myheartmark

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Mar 18, 2016 at 3:55pm PDT