Douglas aeroplanes

Date: 1991

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1991-01

Description: Programme for the air show contains a message from the Governor General Dame Catherine Tizard, a short history of the New Zealand Warbids Assn Inc, photographs of the Harvard, Trojan, Venom, Spitfire, Hawker, Douglas Dakota, Mustanq and Iroquois aircraft featuring in the show, a plan of the grounds and the day's programme. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, 212 x 150 mm.

Date: [ca 1920s-1960s]

By: Bridle, Marcus, 1970-

Reference: ATL-Group-00049

Description: A collection of photographic negatives and prints of mainly New Zealand civil and military aircraft, taken by unknown photographers, possibly between 1920s to 1960s. It is not known when the collection was assembled. The earliest images are of an airplane that flew from Invercargill to Auckland in 1921, which appear to have been taken at the conclusion of that flight. The largest part of the collection is two sequences of negatives, one of New Zealand civil aircraft and one of New Zealand military aircraft (which also includes some images of Australian, British, American, and Canadian registered aircraft). The original glassine enclosures for the negatives had either typed or handwritten identification of the images, in most cases. Although many of the negative enclosures that are not typed are labelled in the same hand in black ink, some are labelled in blue ballpoint pen, which may have been done after the collection was assembled. Frequently there was also a set of initials in the bottom left corner of the envelope; either 'WP', 'KM' or 'LD'. The latter was almost always followed by a 'N' and a three digit number. It is possible that 'KM' is Ken Meehan, who photographed aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s; 'WP' may be William Penelligan, who was active in Mangere in the mid-1950s, and worked in the publishing section at White's Aviation. The initals 'LD' are Les Downey, who worked at TEAL and also in the publishing section at White's Aviation. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Leo White or other staff of White's Aviation. Typically the images are identified by the registration identifier only; sometimes accompanied by a three or four digit number. Some of the enclosures identify when and where the photographs were taken, and those are mainly at air shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at Mangere, Waharoa, Whenuapai, Rukuhia, Hobsonville, Ardmore, and Rongotai airfields. The collection also includes photographic prints of aircraft and related subjects, most of which appear to be images from the negatives, and a sequence of prints and negatives originally kept together in labelled envelopes. Arrangement: The negatives were originally arranged in two sequences (New Zealand civil and miltary aircraft) in two metal two-drawer index card cabinets. Most of the prints were purchased by the vendor loose in a box, and he arranged them into sequences according to subject and/or markings on the backs of the prints. There was one sequence of prints and negatives together in labelled envelopes. Quantity: 2724 b&w original negative(s). 413 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The collection had been in the vendor's possession for about five years. It was purchased by the vendor from a second-hand bookshop in Onehunga. It is possible that it came to the bookshop from the estate of William Penelligan, photographer of aircraft and a member of the Aviation Historical Society. It is also possible that the photographs were originally the collection of Whites Aviation, and were used in the production of the company's aviation-related magazines.

Date: 1985

By: Qantas Airways Ltd; Stephens, Don, active 1980s

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-1985-01

Description: Poster shows black and white line illustrations of the aircraft used by Qantas from 1922 to 1985. Aircraft include: 1922: A.W. FK 8; DH.4 1923: DH.9C 1924: DH.50A 1926: DH.60 1929: DH.61 1930: DH.80 1934: DH.83 1935: DH.86 1938: Short C-Class 1940: DH.84 1942: Lockhead 10A 1943: PBY-5B Catalina 1944: Liberator LB-30 1945: Douglas DC-3 1947: Lockheed Constellation 1949: Douglas DC-4 1950: Short Sandringham 1954: DHC.2 Beaver; Lockheed Super Constellation 1958: DHC.3 Otter 1959: Lockheed Electra; Boeing 707 1971: Boeing 747B 1981: Boeing 747SP 1984: Boeing 747 Extended Upper Deck 1985: Boeing 767 Extended Range There is a note that not all aircraft types are represented, and they are not to scale. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet, 418 x 590 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Hayward's Rare & Collectable Book Auction 24 July 2014, part of lot 476.

Date: [ca 1945-1950]

From: Laycock, Stanley Furniss, 1919-2010: Photographs

By: Laycock, Stanley Furniss, 1919-2010

Reference: PAColl-9976

Description: Photographs of aircraft taken by an unidentified photographer probably between 1945 and 1950. Included are a Spitfire, a Douglas DC-3 named 'Papau', a Douglas DC-6, and a Lockheed Hudson. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The donor found the photographs amongst her father's possessions after his death.

Date: 23 December 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-102234-G

Description: Scene at Paraparaumu Airport showing Douglas DC3 (foreground and centre background) and Lockheed Lodestar aeroplanes. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 18 December 1950

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-26059-F

Description: New Zealand National Airways Corporation's DC-3 airliners, ZK-AOD Papango, and ZK-AOH Pateke being readied for their scheduled flights. Photographed by Whites Aviation on the 18th of December 1950. This photograph was taken on the day Christchurch Airport was proclaimed an International Airport. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13.2 x 11 cm

Date: 1950 - 1960

By: New Zealand National Airways Corporation; Sincock, R G, active 1900s; Lipanovic, Linwood Anthony, 1915-2003

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-NAC-1950s-02

Description: Poster advertising NAC flights shows a smiling snowman holding skis and a ski pole, in a mountains setting. The three luggage labels on the skis are for Queenstown, The Hermitage and Coronet Peak. In the clear blue sky above the snowman, flies an NAC DC3 plane. Artist of this poster is unknown but it is suggested that the style is similar to that of Linwood Lipanovic, who is known to have designed several posters for TEAL, a related airline (Darian Zam, email 24.10.2018) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - R G Sincock Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 765 x 510 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by R G Sincock whose name is stamped at lower right.

Date: [ca 31 October 1949]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Transport-Aviation-Aircraft A to B-01

Description: National Airways Corporation's Douglas airliner Popotea at Whenuapai after arriving from Paraparaumu on the first night flight in New Zealand. Photograph taken ca 31 October 1949 by an unidentified photographer. Caption - National Airways' Douglas airliner Popotea on the tarmac at Whenuapai after arriving from Paraparaumu on the first regular evening flight in New Zealand. The Popotea, with 16 passengers, took off from Paraparaumu at 6.30pm, flew over Foxton as the sun was setting, passed Ruapehu and Egmont standing out in the last light of the day and reached Auckland in the darkness at 8.10. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.2 x 20.8 cm