FIRST 100 PLANES
RONGOTAI FACTORY AIR FORCE TRAINEES OUTPUT SPEEDED UP GOVERNMENT ORDERS (I’cr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The De Havillancl Aircraft Company’s factory is in production. The first of the planes ordered by the Government for use as light trainers are out of the cases and away. The Empire airways scheme has grown since the order was placed, and under it New Zealand airmen will receive advanced training in Canada, but there is still a need lor a large number of trainers at New Zealand bases, and it is more likely to be enlarged than reduced. The first month's output is straight assembly, but as subsequent shipments come to hand more and more or the contents of the cases will be semimanufactured. Later, construction from raw material, apart from motors, instruments and certain metal parts, will be undertaken at Rongotai.
The De Havilland Company decided on the erection of a factory a year ago for commercial planes, but the war speeded matters up.
The planes are the latest of the D.H. light model biplanes fitted with a full range of instruments for ail iniiial training and for navigational instruction and blind flying
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 7
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194FIRST 100 PLANES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 7
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