Union Airways of NZ's original flying staff at Palmerston North's Milson Airport 15 January 1936, the day before commerrcial services began with a de Havilland D.86 plane, ZK-AEG Karoro (Black-backed Gull), which had been the first plane to be assembled after unshipping at Lyttelton and test flown on 8 December 1935. It also completed the first commercial flight from Palmertson North's Milson to Dunedin on 16 January 1936.
For lots more, see the book The Aircraft of Air New Zealand and affiliates since 1940.
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