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TRAINING FOR N.A.C. PILOTS

Conversion To Viscounts Arrangements lor a training school for National Airway pilots who will fly the new turbo-prop Viscount aircraft will be made next month. A senior official of the corporation announced this yesterday. Conversion courses ftom DC-3’s to the Viscounts would be held at Harewood, the official said. A tentative time for the first of a number of courses was August. Details of the courses will be made in Christchurch by the corporation’s operations manager (Captain H. C. Walker), who will be sent south from Wellington to supervise. Captain Walker will be accompanied by the chief pilot of National Airways (Captain L. J. Ransom).

Senior pilots of the corporation are already in Australia . doing conversion courses with Trans-?" Australia Airlines. They are Captains J. H. Register and G. Harvey. Captain A. C. Kenning has returned from a pilots’ conversion course and is in Christchurch doing liaison work with the new Viscount engineering and maintenance plant. Seventeen members of the engineering staff are to go overseas for study on Viscounts. Six will leave this month, five will go in July and six in August. The six leaving in the next few weeks are all from Harewood. Some of the remaining 11 will come from other establishments. Conversion training will be at Sydney and Melbourne.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570502.2.91

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 10

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TRAINING FOR N.A.C. PILOTS Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 10

TRAINING FOR N.A.C. PILOTS Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 10

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