Air service sold
IX.Z. Press Assn — Copyright) j WELLINGTON. | Capital Air Services was sold by the Wellington Aero Club because it had outgrown the club’s resources. The airline, the commercial arm of the Aero Club, has been taken over by Hamiltonbased James Aviation, Ltd, and two Nelson businessmen. Capital’s general manager, Mr M. C. Turley, said today that the airline’ had grown too big for the club to handle. The airline has simply outgrown the club and it needed more backing than the club could provide,” he said. The club had been negotiating “for a good many months” to relinquish its control of the airline which it formed four years ago. “There have been no hard
feelings at all with regard .to the situation that has arisen,” he said. Mr Turley said that thei aero club had approached: James Aviation with a proposal that it take an interest in the airline. Capital flies small-plane charter and scheduled services out of Rongotai.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34027, 16 December 1975, Page 5
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