AIRCREW COURSE
Ashburton Camp Sixteen pilots navigators and signallers of No. 33 aircrew training course at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station. Wigram, will on November 19 go to Ashburton for seven days’ field operating experience. With the course members will also go nine flying instructors, a servicing party of nine, a catering staff of two. a medical orderly and two firemen. The entire Air Force detachment will live under canvas on Ashburton airfield.
During their period at the camp the 16 men will log, collectively, about 125 hours in Devons and 35 hours in Harvards. For the seven days they are there the men will fly in four Devons and two Harvards which will be based with them at the airfield.
The flying programme will include formation flying in Harvards, low flying, lowlevel navigational exercises and a search and rescue exercise. The detachment will be under the command of Squadron Leader J. E. Wood. The last aircrew course to train at Ashburton did so earlier in the year. The present course will hold its graduation parade at Wigram on December 1.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29662, 4 November 1961, Page 14
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