FRANCE BUYS SHORT CALCUTTA FLYING BOATS
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RUGBY, June 17
The French airman. Captain Costcs, will this week pilot home one of the well-known Calcutta type flying boats, constructed by Messrs Short, of Rochester, which the French Government has purchased. An agreement has been reached between Shorts and the Breguet Company for the manufacture under license, in France, of further Calcutta boats which the French Government intends to employ in the naval services. French' Air Transport companies operating in the Mediterranean are also ordering Calcutta craft.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 144, 19 June 1931, Page 1
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