AIR PILOT RETIRES.
WAIKATO CLUB INSTRUCTOR. FLIGHT-LIEUT. W. H. LETT. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) HAMILTON, This Day. To have flown for 4500 hours and to have trained 52 pilots has been the experience of Flight-Lieut. W. H. Lett, instructor to the Waikato Aero Club, Hamilton, who is giving up flying to go into business. Mr Lett was responsible for inaugurating the Waikato branch of the Auckland Aero Club. Mr Lett served with the 90th Punjab Regiment in the Indian Army before transferring to the Royal Air Force in 1917. He resumed active flying in 1924, when he came to New Zealand. He served with the GoodwinChichester Aviation Company and was later instructor to the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club, and a pilot for the Gisborne Air Transport Company. With Flight-Lieut. G. Bolt, Lieut. Lett spent some time in Ashburton with two ’planes, carrying large numbers of passengers. He is w 7 ell known to Ashburton pilots.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 37, 23 November 1937, Page 4
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