Mount Cook, Ski Planes on Tasman Glacier (ZK-CAV and ZK-CHJ)
Mailed from Christchurch Airport in New Zealand, the postmark is not quite clear enough to tell us in what year. 40-cent stamp is there. You can see two aircraft in this picture. One, ZK-CAV, is a Cessna 185 first registered and flown in 1961 by Rural Aviation Ltd. of New Plymouth. The other, ZK-CHJ and also a Cessna 185, met a sad ending. Flying for Mount Cook Airline, it was carrying four skiers plus a guide when it crashed into Tasman Glacier on 9th August 1984, killing three of the six persons on board. The card has two perforated edges, indicating it was part of a set. Grade: 2