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contract, James Air slashed its
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reflecting its ownership by the
Aviation Corporation Ltd.
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806:Defunct airlines of New Zealand
737:Queenstown – Mount Cook Airways
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757:Tasman Empire Airways Limited
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359:Airlines of New Zealand
712:Origin Pacific Airways
637:Kiwi Regional Airlines
617:Great Barrier Airlines
420:Stewart Island Flights
717:Pacific Blue Airlines
707:NZ Tourist Air Travel
657:Menzies Aviation (NZ)
486:Texel Air Australasia
622:Great Barrier Xpress
572:Capital Air Services
93:Wellington Aero Club
89:Capital Air Services
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662:Motueka Air
612:Freedom Air
567:Capital Air
445:Air Safaris
400:Barrier Air
299:New Zealand
141:Cook Strait
607:Fly My Sky
527:Air Timaru
517:Air Nelson
415:Sounds Air
231:References
169:Cessna 402
129:Wellington
101:Cessna 402
627:James Air
547:Air2there
481:Parcelair
410:Originair
365:Scheduled
311:Companies
117:Greymouth
97:James Air
19:James Air
800:Category
522:Air Post
465:Salt Air
323:Aviation
214:See also
195:Unknown
180:Beech 99
160:Aircraft
146:Databank
125:Blenheim
39:Callsign
652:Kiwijet
577:CityJet
495:Defunct
450:Airwork
438:Charter
285:Portals
60:Founded
742:Skybus
425:Sunair
111:Routes
747:SPANZ
474:Cargo
388:Minor
372:Major
184:1982
153:Fleet
139:over
131:and
119:and
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63:1978
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29:IATA
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