DOMINION AIR SERVICE

Northern Advocate, 23 October 1935, Page 3

DOMINION AIR SERVICE

: OPERATING SHORTLY PLANES PURCHASED. / [Special to “Northern Advocate.”} AUCKLAND, This Day. Returning by the Rangitikei last night after a six months’ visit to England, Squadron-Leader M. G. McGregor, Squadron-Leader of the Dominion Airways stated that two 12-seater De Havilland planes for the company’s service between Palmerston North and Dunedin were to have been shipped from London by the motor ship Waipawa, which was to leave there on October 16, and was due at Dunedin on November 16. The planes would be landed at Lyttelton and assembled at the Wigram aerodrome, in time, he thought for the service to commence before Christmas. While he was in England SquadronLeader McGregor made test flights both in the 12-seater, which will be used in the Palmerston North-Dunedin service, and the seven-seater type, io be used on the Cook Strait service, between Wellington and Nelson. The larger planes, he stated, "had four engines, which gave them a top speed of iSO m.p.h., and mac|e them very safe, as any two of the engines would keep them in the air. They carried two pilots .and were equipped with wireless. The smaller planes with two engines were not quite so fast.