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Enjoy a trip back in time, complete with propellers, NAC-type uniformed stewardesses, and an open-to-view cockpit.

Featuring proper head- and legroom, big rectangular windows and an unbeatable view to  glorious scenery, just 1500 feet below.

About Us

Experience classic 1940’s and 1950’s style flying in a beautifully presented DC-3 airliner

Receive a warm New Zealand Welcome on board as you join our crew for a Flight Tour onboard this classic DC3 airliner. Our professional airline Captains and Cabin Crew provide scenic tours around Auckland, the North Shore and Hauraki Gulf.   We also offer a wonderful summer day out tour flying to Whitianga on the eastern Coromandel Peninsula. 

What else do we do?
We also provide private charter flights . Choose local 30 minute or 1 hour Flight Tours, day or overnight trips. Join us to fly to air shows at Easter, Art Deco tour in February, Food and Wine tours or multi day New Zealand tours. 

Meet Betsy

NZ3546, better known as Betsy, is a 1944 Oklahoma-built Douglas DC-3, fixed-wing propeller driven aircraft whose speed and range revolutionised air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. 

DC3's played a key role during World War 2 and have had a lasting impact on the airline industry. A total of 16,079 DC3s were produced, with more than 400 still in commercial service as recently as 1998.

Betsy is one of only a handful of DC-3s in the world still certified for civil aviation.
In 1987, Betsy began a new life in New Zealand, when she was purchased by a group of our New Zealand Warbird pilots and friends. 

For many years the DC3 was painted in the D-Day colours used by the Royal Air Force during World War 2 – olive green on the upper surfaces and eggshell blue below. 

In 2007, the DC3 was repainted to represent the aircraft “NZ3546” from No.42 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. NZ3546 was one of the last two DC3s in the RNZAF service. Sold by tender, NZ3546 is now believed to be based at Wonderboom, South Africa.
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