I'm trying to put together a little bit of a history to the service... These are the operators I have found that have flown it... I'm wondering if Rex Aviation or Rawson Aviation ever carried the Dominion???
You may pick up other errors...
1971 Capital Air
Services
1978 James Air
Apr
1981 Wellington
Aero Club
Sep
1981 Air
Albatross
Dec
1985 Skyferry
Oct
1988 Fieldair
Freight
Mid
1993 Flightcorp
1999 Vincent
Aviation
9 Jan 2006 Sounds
Air
As I put something together I would love to hear from pilots that have flown the early morning Dominion flight and maybe answer one or some of these questions
Operator you flew for?
Rough dates who flew the service?
What was your experience or stories of flying the papers?
Did you ever have passengers to or from Nelson?
Have you any pictures of the newspaper operation?
My email is westland831@gmail.com
I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks, Steve
Back “in the day”, I flew on The Dominion service from Napier to Gisborne (operated by Cooksons) on a couple of occasions. I was working out of Gisborne (driving trains) and on both occasions, we were going to bust our hours because of adverse weather conditions delaying the train we ran to Napier. In the meantime, SH2 got closed by slips, so we were flown home to Gisborne on the newspaper plane.
ReplyDeleteA history of the Cookson service can be found here... http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/wairoas-cookson-airspread-part-1.html
ReplyDeleteI regret never really trying to take the train between Gisborne and Napier