NEW AIRCRAFT FOR AERO CLUB FLYING
MIDDLE DiSTEICTS BUYS PERCIVAL PROCTER Tmportant news for Middle Districts Aero Club members and supporters is contained in tlin announcement that towaixls the end of this month the club will take delivery of a Percival Procter 1 airerhft which arrived in the Dominion recently from Engiand. This aircraft, although not ne,w, has the ap peatance of a new aircraft, having been thoroughly reconditioned by the makers, the Percival Aircraft Company. Engiand. Four aircraft of this type have been imported into New Zealand but the fotirth ligurOd recently in the tragie crasli at Grebe Yalley, .Southland, when two men were killed. Powered with a six-cylinder Gipsy Queen engine the Procter is very similar in design ahd all outward appearanc.es to the Yega Gull from wliich aircraft the Procter was developed. Its cruisihg speed is approximately 140 /n.p.h. and besides being able to seat four in its eabin, this plywood low-wing monoplaue is also adaptable to use as an air ambulance sihiply by the re-arrange; ment of the cabin spaee. There is little difference between the Percival Procter 1 and the latest modei, the Percival Procter V, the modilications being in only small details.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 February 1947, Page 5
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