The third of five Airspeed Oxford monoplanes bought by the Government for the Royal New Zealand Air Force was unloaded from the Middlesex at Auckland on Monday and taken by water) to the Hobsonville air base. The machine will be assembled at Hobsonville and later tested there before being flown to Wigram to join two sister-ships already in service. The remaining two Oxfords are expected to arrive toward the- end of the year, and it is hoped, to have all five in commission at the flying training school at Wigram before Christmas,
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22518, 28 September 1938, Page 10
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