Goose links Chch to Akaroa
By
DAVE WILSON
Echo November Yankee has the distinction of being the oldest plane based at Christchurch Airport, while also carrying the flag for the newest airline in the world.
The 46-year-old Grumman Goose amphibian aircraft is the workhorse of a new tourist floatplane • venture, due to begin in Canterbury on July 22. Canterbury Planes is the brainchild of a business entrepreneur, Mr Stephen Pope, whose plan is to link Akaroa and Banks Peninsula into the international visitor circuit.
Mr Pope’s 1942 vintage Grumman Goose, the only one of its type in the'South Island, yesterday swooped into Akaroa, where a crowd welcomed the prospect of a 15-minute air link to central Christchurch.
The flight was to test the Goose’s noise levels against the prevailing calm of Akaroa. Local opinion was that the old aircraft passed with flying colours.
Even with the Grumman’s twin Pratt and Whitney 450 h.p. engines at full power, a helicopter hovering nearby was louder than the amphibian. The plane will initially be based at Christchurch Airport while Mr Pope negotiates for a landing and parking area at Lyttelton.
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Press, 12 July 1988, Page 1
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