AIR PLANES PASS OVER FOXTON.
BN ROUTE TO AUCKLAND AIR. PAGENT. A fleet of three Moth ’planes, piloted by Captain W. L. Findlay (Air Force), Mr W. Mercer (lOanterbury Aero Clulb) and .Mr M. C. Chandler (Marlborough Club) and a Bristol fighter, piloted by Captain H. B. Burrell (Air Force) passed over Foxton on Thursday afternoon from Christchurch, en route to the air pageant at Auckland. The Moths reached Hawera in the evening, but the Blenheim Bristol fighter landed at Feilding and resumed its flight the following morning, after refuelling. The Bristol tighter is the same machine used by Kingsford Smith on his Dominion tour last September.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 3
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107AIR PLANES PASS OVER FOXTON. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3933, 20 April 1929, Page 3
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