New Zealand National Airways Corporation
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| ICAO code : | NZ |
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| Founding: | 1947 |
| Operation stopped: | 1978 |
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| Passenger volume: | 1,100,000 (1968) |
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| New Zealand National Airways Corporation ceased operations in 1978. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) was a state- run airline in New Zealand from 1947 .
history
The New Zealand National Airways Corporation was created in 1947 through state intervention; the underlying law of 1945 shaped air traffic for the next 30 years. In 1948 the company transported under 200,000 passengers, in 1952 no more money was lost for the first time and in 1968 NAC transported 1,100,000 passengers.
When it was founded, pre-war aircraft were mainly available from the Union Airways of NZ Ltd as well as Douglas DC-3 and Lockheed Lodestar from military stocks. De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide , Gipsy Moth and Lockheed Electra were taken on pre-war aircraft .
In 1978 there was a forced merger with Air New Zealand .
Destinations
The company flew within New Zealand. When Air New Zealand took over operations in April 1978, Kaitaia , Whangarei , Auckland , Hamilton , Tauranga , Whakatāne , Rotorua , Taupo , Gisborne , Napier , New Plymouth , Wanganui , Palmerston North , Wellington , Blenheim , Nelson , Westport , Hokitika , Christchurch , Oamaru , Timaru , Dunedin and Invercargill .
fleet
By 1974, the company's last aircraft of a founding type from 1947, a Douglas DC-3 . Most recently, 12 of the DC-3s were modernized as “Skyliner” in the 1960s, with larger windows, among other things, remaining in the fleet mainly for servicing grass runways. The company operated a total of 42 DC-3 machines in a fleet of up to 27 machines, both for passengers and for pure cargo flights. Six aircraft were used as freighters and at least at times bore the NAC Freightair logo . New additions after the establishment were the De Havilland DH.114 Heron (1952-1957) and the Vickers Viscount from 1958. Four aircraft of the Vickers Viscount were procured from the factory in 1958, 1959 (two) and 1961, while one aircraft was in 1966 was taken over used by the Polish LOT . The DC-3 aircraft were replaced by the Fokker F27 and the Viscount from 1968 by the Boeing 737 .
Incidents
At NZNAC there were 4 total write-offs of aircraft up to the takeover in 1978. Each of them killed people, 43 in total.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international 1977 , p. 264. Zurich Airport 1977.
- ^ History of Aviation - Government Intervention , The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, p. 7
- ↑ History of Air New Zealand , airnewzealand.com
- ^ NAC - Illustrated History of New Zealand National Airways Corporation 1947-1978 , Craig Printing 2007, ISBN 978-0473120009
- ↑ History of the New Zealand DC-3
- ^ The delivery of New Zealand's first Viscount , on the Vickers Viscount Network
- ↑ Accident Statistics New Zealand National Airways Corporation - NAC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 17, 2018.