JOHN HOPTON MEMORIAL COLLECTION
No. 4371. Short S.45 Solent Mk.IV (ZK-AMO c/n SH.1559) Tasman Empire Airways "Aranui"
Photographed at Hobsonville, New Zealand, October 8, 1961, by Mike Madden
07/03/2005. Remarks by John Hopton: "The Mk.IV variant was built specifically for Tasman Empire Airways, with its last service flown on September 14, 160, then stored at Hobsonville until May 1966, then to New Zealand Museum of Transport and Technology."
Created July 3, 2005
