NEW AIR LINERS
TWO LOCKHEED ELECTRAS FIRST ARRIVING NEXT MONTH Two new Lockheed F.lectra air liners, similar to those which have been usea bv the company on the service ®" twcen Auckland and Wellington, have been purchased by "Union Airways ot New Zealand. Limited. The machines, which are fitted with Hamilton standard constant speed propellers, are powered by Pratt and WhitnGv "asp Junior engines. _ , . The first machine is expected . arrive in Auckland by the Haura* 1 from Los Angeles on August 19. They are to carry the registration, letters ZK-AGJ and ZK-AGK and the naines which have been chosen for them are Kahu and Kopara, meaning hawk an bellbird respectively. Up to July 15, 379.052 miles had been flown by the Lockheed air hneri on the Auckland-Wellington . sprv,( |®j and, with 9141 passengers carried, tno number of passenger-miles amounted 2,029,335.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23097, 23 July 1938, Page 12
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