CALCUTTA FLYING BOATS
USE ON FRENCH AIR LINES [British Official Wireless.] Received June 18, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, June 17. The French airman, Captain Costes, will this week pilot home one of the well-known Calcutta type of flying boats constructed by Messrs Short, of Rochester, which the French Government have purchased. An agreement has been reached between Messrs Short and the Brequet Company for the manufacture under license in France of further Calcutta boat-, which the French Government intend to employ in their naval services. The French air transport companies operating in the Mediterranean arc also ordering Calcutta craft.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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