The airfield
Five of Hornby’s seven register entries are the same airfield, RNZAF Station Wigram’s hangars, barracks, mess and classrooms, and the sixth is the landing site the register names for Kingsford Smith. The buildings stand around the old field; the last stop is a listed dwelling up the road.
The walk, as a line
Straight between pins, the streets run longer. Every numbered pin opens that place’s own record.
The stops, in order
- Kingsford Smith Landing Site, 32R Bennington Way · 3 unread leads
The Kingsford Smith landing site, the register’s name for the ground itself.
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 5 and Setting, 75 Sioux Avenue · 1 unread lead
Hangar 5, one of two listed hangars on the old station.
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting, 95 Sioux Avenue · 2 unread leads
Hangar 4, the other.
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting, 69 Corsair Drive · 2 unread leads
The instructional building, where the station taught.
- Former Canterbury Aviation Company Barracks and Setting
The Canterbury Aviation Company barracks, the company before the air force.
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting, 14 Henry Wigram Drive · 15 unread leads
The No 1 Officers' Mess, the station’s social entry.
- 79 Carmen Road, 79 Carmen Road · 8 unread leads
79 Carmen Road, a listed dwelling, off the field and on the roll.
The reports along it
312 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 230 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Litter
Litter
Pavement - General
Rubbish and Bins - General
Road Signage
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Pothole
Dumped Rubbish
Pavement - General
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Street Light OutageQuestions, answered briefly
Five of Hornby’s seven register entries are the same airfield, RNZAF Station Wigram’s hangars, barracks, mess and classrooms, and the sixth is the landing site the register names for Kingsford Smith. 7 listed places, 2.7 km as the line runs, Hornby.
Kingsford Smith Landing Site (32R Bennington Way) to 79 Carmen Road (79 Carmen Road), the order is a suggestion, not the only way round.
Every one, each pin is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, and each opens the place’s own sourced record here.
2.7 km measured straight between the pins, the streets run longer, and the stops deserve a pause each.
The record behind this
Every stop is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, held here as the register’s own layer. The order and the notes are ours, the listings are the council’s and Heritage New Zealand’s. "Setting" is the register’s word for the ground a listing covers.
The rest of the register here: Hornby
The same ground today: Hornby
This page as markdown: /walks/hornby-airfield.md · the route as data: /walks/hornby-airfield.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.