The grounds of Nelson airport contain two aviation-related memorials, both of which consist of plaques fixed to boulders. The first, dating from 1998, commemorates the presence of a former Royal New Zealand Air Force base on the site. The second, from 2005, commemorates the first fatal air accident involving passengers on a scheduled flight in New Zealand, which occured nearby on 7 May 1942.
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RELATED TO NELSON AIRPORT MEMORIALS
Events
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4 September 2010
Fox Glacier plane crash
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21 January 1859
Ice comes to Nelson
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24 May 1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
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25 August 1920
First flight across Cook Strait
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14 May 1870
First game of rugby played in NZ
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1 May 1955
RNZAF's first combat strike since Second World War
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5 February 1911
First controlled powered flight in New Zealand
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2 October 1941
NZ pilot saves Scottish village
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28 November 2008
Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France
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23 October 1948
Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
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19 May 1987
Attempted hijacking in Fiji foiled
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31 January 1921
NZ’s first regular airmail service begins
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10 January 1928
Pioneer aviators vanish over the Tasman
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3 July 1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range
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13 July 1916
Walsh becomes first NZer to obtain pilot's certificate
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5 October 1866
Maungatapu murderers hanged in Nelson
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27 July 1963
Pioneer aviator George Bolt dies
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11 September 1928
First trans-Tasman flight
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16 October 1936
Jean Batten conquers UK-NZ route
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20 November 1937
Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland Domain
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1 February 1842
First NZ Company settlers arrive in Nelson
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7 April 1856
First state secondary school opens in Nelson
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8 February 1931
First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ
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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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1 April 1965
TEAL becomes Air New Zealand
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7 January 1931
Completion of first solo trans-Tasman flight
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1 December 1933
First flight from North Cape to Bluff
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31 March 1967
Fred Ladd flies under Auckland Harbour Bridge
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28 November 1979
257 killed in Mt Erebus disaster
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2 January 1938
First official airmail flight to San Francisco
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Alfred de Bathe Brandon
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Clive Collett
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Euan Dickson
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William Rhodes-Moorhouse
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Thomas Brunner
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Leo White
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Charles Monro
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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Edward Stafford
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Jane Atkinson
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Jean Batten
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Kitty Kain
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The War in the air
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Royal New Zealand Air Force
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