NEW LOCKHEED FLOWN TO PALMERSTON N.
With. Commander A. G. Gerrand at the controls, Union Airways’ new Lockheed Electra passenger j monoplane, ZK-AGK, which arrived , at Wellington last Saturday on k board the Clydebank, left Rongatai aerodrome at 2.10 p.m. yester- , day for Palmerston North, where it arrived at 2.45 pan. Yesterday Avas the first occasion j on Which the aircraft Avas flown in £ NeAV Zealand. The Avork of fitting e the outer Avings, tail unit, airserews. and other parts Avas carried out at Rongotai by the company’s ground engineers, and was completed in three days. Four members of Union * Airways staff, who came to Rongotai to assemble the machine, returnf ed to their base by the ZK-AGK yesterday. The neAV Lockheed is to be named Kaka (coloured parrot).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 5001, 7 October 1938, Page 2
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