MOSQUITO AIRCRAFT
FERRY FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND CREWS TO LEAVE AT WEEK-END (P.A.) PALMERSTON N„ Jan. 7. Fifteen Mosquito flying crews will leave Ohakea on Friday for Whenuapai, and will travel during the weekend via Australia and Singapore to the United Kingdom, where they will pick up the Mosquito aircraft for use in the Dominion and fly them to New Zealand for No. 75 Squadron. Commanding the squadron, which is based at Ohakea, is Wing Commander J. E. Watts, A.F.C., who will remain in New Zealand for organisation purposes. Squadrori Leader' C. H. Baigent, D. 5.0., D.F.C., will command the ferry flight. When the crews return from England they hope to bring with them mementoes of No, 75 Squadron which have remained at the squadron’s last English headquarters.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26354, 8 January 1947, Page 4
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