This image is the first photograph in a series showing worldwide aircraft. We have been acquiring a number of images, including some showing mail being loaded onto planes, which we shall publish on Philatelic Database throughout the year. Aerophilatelists should find much of interest in this collection.

This fine black and white photograph shows a South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand Douglas DC3 at Invercargill Airport, New Zealand on January 1, 1966.

If you have photographs of aircraft, particularly those, which carried mail, why not send us scans to share with PDb readers?

Further information

For useful information on the Douglas DC3, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3

Readers who collect New Zealand flight covers should join the Air Mail Society of New Zealand. Visit http://www.newzeal.com/Philately/AirmailSociety.htm.