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Originally Posted by D-AIHC
Thanks for the info and welcome to the forum! It seems like there's something written on the nose below the cockpit windows of ZK-NAS. Is that the name of the aircraft? If so, what is it?
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Yes. Its Paiwakawaka, the Maori name for the fantail (type of bird). NAC named most of its aircraft with the Maori names for local birds, and Air NZ kept using bird names its domestic aircraft aircraft until the Pacific Wave era.