Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: First flights over Cook Strait

Euan Dickson, C. Hewlett and J. Moore in front of the Avro bi-plane after the first flight across Cook Strait in 1920 [courtesy Air Force Museum of New Zealand]

Evening Post newspaper headlines, 25 August 1920 [courtesy Papers Past]

Philip Kenning Fowler’s 1916 aviator’s certificate [courtesy Manawatū Heritage]