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Mount Cook Airline
Mount Cook Airline is an airline based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Formerly part of the Mount Cook Group, it is now wholly owned by Air New Zealand and operates scheduled services throughout the country under the Air New Zealand Link brand. All aircraft are now in Air New Zealand livery. Its main base is Christchurch International Airport.
==Early history==
The airline was established and started operations in 1920 at Timaru by Rodolph Lysaght Wigley, who in 1906 had driven the first motor car to The Hermitage. Wigley bought five war-surplus aircraft for sightseeing and formed the ''NZ Aero Transport Co.'', the first company of its kind in the country. The first aeroplane to land in Fairlie was a war surplus bi-plane E 4242 in May 1920 still with the RAF roundel on the fuselage. Passenger and freight routes served areas between Wellington and Invercargill. On October 1920 with Captain J. C. Mercer, Wigley flew on the first one-day flight from Invercargill to Auckland. After a series of mishaps, e.g. damage to landing equipment during forced landings in paddocks, the company went into liquidation in 1923.〔''(Wigley - One Family on the Road to Tourism )'' on ancestry.com website, viewed 2013-10-31〕
In the 1930s, Wigley formed ''Queenstown - Mount Cook Airway'' in conjunction with his son, Harry, later to become Sir Henry Wigley. Sir Henry remained the Managing Director of the airline until 1979 and Chairman until his death in 1980. The company operated charter flights around the Otago Lakes, Milford Sound and Mount Cook regions, until it was suspended by World War II.
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