First International Flight from Wellington, 75 years ago today

03/10/2025 10 min
First International Flight from Wellington, 75 years ago today

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On this day 75 years ago, the first-ever international flight took off from Wellington. The Tasman Empire Airlines Ltd Solent flying boat left for Sydney on October 3rd 1950, in what would have been a very different experience from flying today. To talk about this more, aviation historian Richard Waugh joins Mark Leishman