Over 16,000 DC3's were built

In the last few days a grand old lady of the skies has been in Nelson offering joy-flights.

 

Quite amazing to learn that so many of these old girls were built.

Old and new technology meet at Nelson Airport.

With talk that jet travel is only going to get faster, and therefore distances shorter, its only natural to imagine that the air transport lanes in NZ are only going to get busier.