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Corsair Drive

No council reports on record for Corsair Drive, Hornby, but the street isn’t unknown to the archive: 1 place on the heritage register carries the name.

1 on the registerfrom the air, then

Where it runs

Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Corsair Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Hornby.

From the air, then

Corsair Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Corsair Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Corsair Drive from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

On the register

On foot, The airfield walks this street.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Corsair Drive in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Corsair Drive?

In Hornby, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What is on record for Corsair Drive?

No council reports, but 1 heritage-register place carry the name.

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