We have a few Kiwi’s he so I will add mine. I seem to be the lucky one, my first of 6-7 NCF’s was Christchurch to Oamaru on ZK-WIL a Beachcraft B200 King Air, turbo prop, owned by the company I worked for, part of Goodman Fielder (GFW as it was then).
It was a work related trip of about 50 minutes each way. I got to sit on the couch (being the most junior on board) but that was better than the toilet seat. Seating was 4 + 2 individual seats, a 3 seat couch, and the toilet seat.
I remember it well as the CEO was on board and a couple of other senior exec and I had not been introduced to them before. The way down was all work, the return was work until one of the managers asked me to play hostie, cheese, biscuits, grapes and Steinlarger beer.:mrgreen::mrgreen: