24,000 miles 12 days
• (N.Z P.A, Staff Correspondent) ; LONDON. ■ ( A round-the-world pilot, -ICliff Tait, of Hampton, has : I completed a New Zealand- ; I Britain flight in a Fletcher > Fu 24 agricultural aircraft. ; Mr Tait flew the Fletcher to Europe in 12 days to join : (an Airtrainer CT4 in dis- : plays at the Paris Air Show ■ I which opens at the end of '(the month. Both aircraft are made by ! Aerospace Industries, New ' Zealand’s only plane-making! ~ company. It will be the first ’; time the two aircraft have . 'been seen in Europe. ’■ Mr Tait flew back to News • Zealand on Wednesday — j I this time in the comfort of a /commercial airliner. i
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Press, Issue 33846, 19 May 1975, Page 18
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