FOURTH AIR SPEED MONOPLANE
MACHINE TO BE STATIONED AT WIGRAM (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 24. The fourth of the five Air Speed monoplanes acquired for the Royal New Zealand Air Force has arrived in Auckland in the' Port Huon and it will be unloaded tomorrow and conveyed by barge to the Hobsonville air base for assembly and testing. The work at Hobsonville will take about six days and the machine will then be flown to the Wigram aerodrome, where the three other Oxfords of the order are now in service. The latest Oxford monoplane to arrive is intended, like the others at Wigram, for bombing purposes. The fifth Oxford is due to arrive in Auckland before Christmas and it is to be equipped for air reconnaissance and photographic work.
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Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 4
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