MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT DELAYED
- 0 Large Number Grounded For ESxamination ' AUCKLAND, Last Night. The discovery of a slight defect in several Mosquito aircraft in England has affected the ferry flights cf ten Mosquitos which are on their way to New Zea'land, some of them being held at Singapore for examination, while the remainder are in India. These ten are the first of 80 Mosquitos purchased from the United Kingdom by New Zealand to equip post-war squadrons of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. They left England on December 12 and were due at Ohakea on December 22. The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice IVfarshal A. de T. Neville, said this morning in a telephone interview that on the discovery of cor-, rosion in a metal part of some aircraft in the United' Kingdom the Air Mindstry grounded a large number of Mosquitos for examination, and requested those en route to New Zealand to he examined similarly. The examination was purely pre1 cautionary, he said.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5297, 9 January 1947, Page 5
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165MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT DELAYED Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5297, 9 January 1947, Page 5
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