BRITISH AIRCRAFT TRADE.
ORDERS FROM GREECE. LARGEST YET RECEIVED. (Official Wireless.) . RUGBY, Oct. 23. The newly-formed Air Ministry in Greece has placed with the Fairey Aviation Company one of the largest orders for British service aircraft ever given by a foreign Government. The machines ordered are Fairey 111. biplanes, capable of attaining a high rate of speed and of being quickly converted from land aeroplanes 'into seaplanes. The type is identical with that of the general purposes machines used in the Royal Air Force, in which the Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister, Mr MacDonald, often travel. Also they are used for the annual Cape to Cairo formation flight made by the Royal Air Force for demonstration and training purposes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 7
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