Captain Ladd Plans Helicopter Venture
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 9. Captain F. P. Ladd today announced his resignation as general manager of Tourist Air Travel, Ltd., a position he has held since «55.
“I have floating plans for the future that concern something in the helicopter field,” he said today. “I have no intention of grounding myself.” He will stay with Tourist Air Travel until March. In his 12 years with Tour-
ist Air Travel he has made an estimated 35,000 flights around Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf. A sprightly 58-year-old, Captain Ladd has also made hundreds of emergency flights for police and ambulance, and his mercy flights have earned him a St. John Ambulance award. He was also awarded the M.B.E. in 1963 for community sendees and in 1965 he received the Brackley Memorial Trophy in London for his services to transport flying. He served with No. 30 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F., during the Second World War, then joined the National Airways Corporation. He was chief pilot for Fiji Airways until 1955.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 16
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