Biggest Aircraft Conversion Job
AUCKLAND, Mon. (P.A.)—Regarded as the biggest aircraft conversion job attempted in New Zealand, the transformation of the former RNZAF Sunderland flyingboat Takitimu into a modern passenger plane, is nearing an end at Hobsonville. The plane will probably leave the National Airways base on March 20 to begin the Auckland-Fiji run on April 2. About 70 men have been engaged on the job since September.
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Northern Advocate, 28 February 1949, Page 5
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