LAST FLYING BOAT ARRIVES
-Press Association
By Telegraph—
AUCIvTjANI), Sept. 4. The last of the tliree Tasman eiass
fiying boats ordered from Britain foi Ihe Auckland-Sydney mu, the Royal Mai! aircraft New Zealand, completed her delivery fliglit this afternoon when she reaclied Auckland from Poole, England. The aircraft was flown as far as | Sydney by the British Overseas Airways Corporation, the erew including tliree former Dunedin men, and was b rough t from Sydney by a Tasman Empire Airways crew under Captain Jury. The New Zealand is a sister sliip to the Tasman and Australia and is a Mark V Buhderland aircraft remodelled for aitline use. It i3 a 30-pa3senger plaue.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1946, Page 8
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