NEW DEFENCE PLANE
FOURTH AIRSPEED OXFORD
(By Telegrai.ti—Press Association.)
- AUCJCLAMfi, November 24. "-■ The fourth of ~ the five Aii'Speed Oxford monoplanes acquired idt the Royal New Zealand Ait Foi.de has. arrived at Auckland in the Poft HUon, *,and it will be unloaded tomorrow and conveyed by barge to the Hobsonville Air Base for assembly and testing.
The work at Hobsonville will take about six days, and the machine will •then be flown to Wigram Aerodrome, Jwhere the three other Oxfords of the ■ order are now in service. The latest to arrive is intended, like the others -Tat Wigwam, tot bombing. The fifth OxfOfd is due to arrive at -Auckland before Christmas, and it is _to be equipped for air reconnaissance photographic work.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 6
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121NEW DEFENCE PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 6
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