DOMINION AIRCRAFT.
More than 50 civil aircraft have been registered in New Zealand to date. Though all liavo not yet arrived in the Dominion, the next machine registered will be known as ZK-ACA. The machine which marked the first half-century reached by the air fleet of this country is a Desoutter, and the latest is a Simmonds Spartan, which is the fifty-second machine.
Though some of those on the list have been crashed, an analysis of the registrations shows the various types of machine are represented in the following numbers: —Do Havilland Moth, 34; Simmonds Spartan, 8; Avro Avian, 4; Desoutter, 2; Dornior Libello, 1; Cutty Sark, 1; Blackburn Bluebird, 1; Monocoupe, 1.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 32 (Supplement)
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