TWO MORE PLANES
WESTERN FEDERATED CLUB
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
Two additional aircraft are to be acquired by the Western Federated (NJ.) Flying Club. A trainer aeroplane is being accepted on loan from the Government and a machine of a similar type is to be purchased by the club under the State system of extended payment It- is not known what type of trainer machine the Government will supply, but it is thought i. may be a Tiger Moth biplane, with a.Gipsy Major engine. This machine is in full acrobatic category, and is recognised for high efficiency. This will give the federation control, of six machines. A Miles Hawk monoplane was* purchased by. the federation in England about three months ago, and about the same time a Moth was acquired from the Southland Aero Club. The club still has two of its original Moths. , , The federation has experienced mis- ] fortune with its machines during the last twelve months. One Moth wias ■ lost as a result of a crash in the Kaimanawa Ranges and another was lost in Cook Strait when returning from the West Coast air pageant. ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 14
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