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A Short Sunderland MR5 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, displayed at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland. The Short Sunderland was developed as a long range maritime reconnaissance flying boat and was widely used during the Second World War.
The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, ... it took part in a flypast to mark the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge on 30 May 1959. On ...
Auckland's horse-drawn tramway opened in 1884 and was replaced by the electric tram system in 1902, closing in 1956. The final closure of an original street tramway was in Wellington in 1964. An 1883 Dunedin Cable Car trailer is the sole South Island tramway exhibit and there are additional trams from Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.
The metropolitan urban limits of Auckland in 2009. This is a list of suburbs in the Auckland metropolitan area, New Zealand, surrounding the Auckland City Centre.They are broadly grouped into their local board areas, and only include suburbs within the metropolitan urban limits of the Auckland urban area.
No. 490 (NZ) Squadron was an anti-submarine and maritime reconnaissance squadron of Coastal Command established for service during the Second World War.It was a New Zealand squadron formed under Article XV of the Empire Air Training Plan.
Initially, the squadron was equipped with Vickers Vincents.From the outbreak of hostilities with Japan, the squadron operated the Short Singapore Mk.IIIs (transferred in October 1941 from No. 205 Squadron RAF) mainly on maritime patrol and anti-submarine duties, rescuing more than fifty survivors of ditched aircraft [2] and successfully attacking a Japanese submarine in the process with the ...
After the war No. 6 Squadron was re-equipped with Short Sunderland flying boats as a Territorial Air Force unit and also operated float equipped Auster light aircraft. The squadron was disbanded in August 1957, with all Sunderlands transferring to No. 5 Squadron prior to their replacement by modern Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft.
State Highway 16 (SH 16) is a New Zealand state highway linking central Auckland with Wellsford, via Auckland's Northwestern Motorway, Helensville and Kaukapakapa.It provides an alternative to SH 1 for traffic travelling between Auckland and parts of Northland from Wellsford northwards.