Antarctic Aviation Preservation Society

The Antarctic Aviation Preservation Society (AAPS) is a general public whose individuals are devoted to the safeguarding of things of authentic interest connected with Antarctic investigation including New Zealand and flying. The AAPS are additionally effectively included in examination into any Antarctic investigation including flight.

Taking after joining in 1998, the Society is at first worried with the recuperation and reclamation of the Fokker Super Universal Virginia which Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd brought with him on his first undertaking to Antarctica in 1928-30. Virginia was the primary airplane to arrive on the Antarctic territory. It was destroyed amid a tempest when it was tore from its tie-downs by a blast of wind assessed to be around 150 mph. The air ship flew in reverse for right around a kilometer before smashing back onto the surface of a solidified lake.

The motivations behind the Society are:

• To recognize and find any things of enthusiasm relating to Antarctic avionics
• To decide responsibility for things and, where conceivable, to mastermind exchange of proprietorship or value to the Society
• To embrace duty regarding such things
• To gather, settle, save, reestablish and secure embraced antiques
• To orchestrate showcase of embraced relics in proper spots of conspicuousness in Christchurch and somewhere else
• To raise stores through gifts, sponsorship, attention material, media rights and/or some other means
• To inquire about the historical backdrop of Antarctic aeronautics
• To get ready chronicled data and produce other material of enthusiasm available to be purchased and/or appropriation
• To get ready and direct addresses and presentations on the historical backdrop of Antarctic avionics for instructive, reputation or raising money purposes.

"On March seventh when I get to Little America from a quarter century ski trip, Gould is waving to me toward the end of the strip. Typhoon Haines has made sense of that the climate most likely won't show signs of improvement than it is, so he surmises we should begin now as at whatever time. I get a chomp, toss my rucksack into the Fokker and move in after it. Harold June tags along as again as radio administrator, and Larry Gould sits in the back of the spot, grasping his theodolite between his knees.