3 Oct 2025

First International Flight from Wellington, 75 years ago today

From Nights, 8:10 pm on 3 October 2025

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