NEW FLYING-BOAT FOR TASMAN PASSES FIRST TESTS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug, 10. The granting of a provisional certificate of airworthiness to the aircraft Ararangi, the second of four Solent flying-boats on order for Tasman Empire Airways, has made necessary the despatch from Auckland to Britain of the third company crew. Captain C. J. Le Couteur and Mr, J. P. Wilson, first officer, will leave next week and will be followed at intervals according to the duration of conversion courses by Mr. J. Cranston, flight engineer, Mr. D. T. Kcally, radio operator, and Mr. C. J. Sutton, flight steward. Aotearoa 11, the first of the Tasman Solents to come oft the slipway at Belfast, has been in the Middle East for tropical tests. She was due back in Britain last week. However, deliveries to New Zealand cannot begin until full certificates of airworthiness have been issued by the British Ministry of Civil Aviation after examination of all test reports. The increased frequency of Tasman flying-boat services was announced by the company yesterday. There will be five return flights weekly, beginning next Monday and six return flights weekly from August 22 onward.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23020, 10 August 1949, Page 3
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189NEW FLYING-BOAT FOR TASMAN PASSES FIRST TESTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23020, 10 August 1949, Page 3
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