FIRST N.A.C. VISCOUNT
Arrival Too Late For Holiday Traffic
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 1.
The National Airways Corporation’s first Viscount airliner will not be available to assist the DC-3 aircraft with heavy summer holiday traffic as had been hoped several months ago. Although construction of the aircraft is reported to be “practically up-to-date” there have been sct-backs with labour troubles at the Vickcrs-Armstrongs works.
The Viscount is due in New Zealand about mid-December at the earliest, but no arrival date will be named until the plane leaves Britain. The aircraft will fly on the Christchurch-Auckland route early in February if it arrives in mid-December.
The delivery crew will leave for Britain in a few weeks. The pilot. Captain H. C. Walker, will go on October 16. He is the corporation s operations manager. Early in November he will be followed by the training supervisor (Captain G. Harvey) and the Viscount flight captain (Captain J. H. Register).
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28397, 2 October 1957, Page 12
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