My Story In Full | The story of Tony Christiansen"


Throughout Tony's life, he has taken on and succeeded at some huge feats. More detail on some of these below...

Qualified Pilot

'Life is like flying a plane, if you don't steer it you end up going somewhere you don't want to be'

ony had always had a fascination with flight. As a kid a hobby of his was model aircraft.

A friend of Tony's who was a pilot for Air New Zealand had read an article about a group of disabled pilots in America who were flying with hand controls.

With that Tony began flying lessons and on the 24th March 1998 created New Zealand aviation history by being the first person to learn and fly solo with a disability.

It took Tony thirteen hours to fly solo and a total of fifty hours to get his private pilots license.