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LINKING SAN FRANCISCO & AUCKLAND PAN AMERICAN PROJECT. COMPLETION OF ROUTE FACILITIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. July 30. Pin-American Airways has announced that it is applying to lhe civil aeronautics authority for permission to begin fortnightly flights with one of its 411-ton four-motored Boeing flyingboats over an 8000-rnile route linking Auckland and San Francisco.
The company is advising the Government that it is ready to start the service immediately on receipt of approval.
The application lists a new route west of the course originally charted by the Samoan Clipper in 1937-38. namely, San Francisco-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Canton Island-Noumea-New Caledonia-Auckland, with a full day's lay-over at Honolulu, and overnight stops at Canton and Noumea. The trip would require four days, with an actual flying time of 49 hours. At the outset only outward-bound flights would stop at Los Angeles. The company states that the route facilities and complete bases have been installed and manned and a flyingboat is available.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 7
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