70,000 hours not out
PA Wellington It’s 21 years this week since the first three Hercules, the Air Force’s transport workhorse, arrived in New Zealand. Another two Lockheed C-130H turbo-prop planes arrived 222y 2 years later to make up the present fleet of five. In a statement marking the anniversary the R.N.Z.A.F. said the Ameri-can-built aircraft had flown 70,000 flight hours without an accident. “This is an outstanding achievement considering the type of operations flown,” the statement said.
Missions flown by N 0.40 Squadron included disaster relief sorties in the Pacific and such unusual tasks as the air-drop of a bulldozer to Pitcairn Island.
The transports had flown to Moscow, Peking, Vietnam, Sinai and Antarctica, as well as many more familiar destinations in Britain and South-East Asia.
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