FLYING IN SOUTH WESTLAND
Captain F. Molloy Ends Long Service (New Zealana Press Association) HOKITIKA December 25. Twenty-three years of accident-free flying—four spent in the R.N.Z.A.F. and the rest covering bush-clad territory bordered by the Tasman Sea and the Southern Alps—is the record of Captain F. Molloy, who is retiring from the position of senior route pilot for the National Airways Corporation in Westland. Captain Molloy is “grounding” himself with 8000 logged flying hours. His flying experience in bush is perhaps equal to that of the late Mr J. C. Mercer, who started his own private aviation company in Westland in 1934.
Captain Molloy will long be remembered by the settlers of South Westland for the services he has carried out. Most of these unscheduled and sudden take-offs were mercy flights. Learning to fly at Greymouth, he made his first solo in 1933. He took an A licence in 1935 and gained a B licence in January, 1939.
He joined the R.N.Z.A.F. in April, 1941, and in 1943 he was posted to operational flying in a Coastal Command weather squadron based on Iceland.
On his return to New Zealand he joined Air Travel, (N.Z.) Ltd.. Hokitika, and subsequently N.A.C. and was posted to pilot duties in Westland.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 8
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