page_title: Union Airways of N.Z. Ltd
section_title: NAC
hierarchical_section_title: Union Airways of N.Z. Ltd / NAC
caption_attribution_description: Lockheed Electra ZK-BUT painted as ZK-AFD (ex N21735, N10Y)MOTAT, Auckland New Zealand
context_page_description: Union Airways of New Zealand Limited was New Zealand's first major airline. It was founded in 1935 by local shipping giant Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. Its services reached main centres from Auckland to Dunedin and extended to Gisborne and the West Coast of the South Island. Union Airways was instrumental in the establishment of Australian National Airways and TEAL.
  After the Second World War New Zealand's government nationalised Union Airways forming New Zealand National Airways Corporation taking over on 31 March 1947 all Union Airways operations assets and facilities and adding them to those taken from other local airlines.
context_section_description: New Zealand National Airways Corporation began business on 1 April 1947. The general manager of Union Airways took the same role in the new NAC. The aircraft, timetables and support services and most personnel were simply moved to the new operation.
  All aircraft below are in National Airways Corporation livery
caption: Lockheed Electra in MOTAT
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