Musick Point Radio Group

flight from the USA to New Zealand in 1937. The following year, he and his crew were lost shortly after becoming airborne from Pago Pago when their flying boat Samoan Clipper is believed to have exploded in mid-air. The Musick Memorial Radio Station was purpose-built as a memorial to Captain Musick and as a high performance long-range radio station. The station went into operation in August 1939, although it was not officially opened until January 1942. It was the home of Auckland Radio ZLF (aviation radio) until 1966 and Auckland Radio ZLD (marine radio) until the New Zealand government closed the country’s coast radio stations in 1993.