RONGOTAI RECORD

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 12

RONGOTAI RECORD

Seventeen Planes Housed In Hangar

Thursday’s record of 14 planes being housed in the hangar at toe Kongola. aerodrome. Wellington, at (lie same time was short-lived, and was eclipsed at. the finish of yesterday’s flying activities, when 17 machines were wheeled in to the hangar. The machines which remained in the hangar overnight were the West Coast Aero Club’s new Tiger Moth on its way to Greymouth from Auckland; the Waikato Aero Club’s Moth, which was down to Rougotai yesterday from Hamilton by the club’s new instructor, Mr. Ken Smith., formerly of Wellington ; a Cook Strait Airways D.H. liapide: three Blackburn Batlius and one Hawker Tomtit for the use of tlie Wellington Territorial Air Squadron; the Wellington Aero Club's Waco. Tiger Molli, Gipsy Moth, Miles Magister. Miles Hawk and Whitney Straiglit; tlie I’yblic Works Department’s Molli and Whitney Straiglit; a Percival Gull flown by Squadron Leader 11. S. Bur roll and Mr., J. R. Franklin's Taylor Cub, which will shortly be transported to Wanganui for the owner who, it is understood, will hire it to the Wanganui Aero Chili.