Pilot Tim Boyd and Air Rarotonga Embraer EMB 110P1/A Bandeirante in 1989. These were very exciting times for Air Rarotonga. It was the first-ever turbine aircraft to be used on domestic services in the Cook Islands
Cook Islands Airways Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander on the old Atiu inland airstrip built by the local people in 1977
The locals cleared rows of pineapples out for the first-ever airstrip in Atiu in 1977. Pineapples ran along both sides of the airstrip. Cook Islands Airways Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander