Newspaper clipping, Air Force Machine Damaged
Maker
Christchurch Press Co. Ltd
Production date
22 Feb 1940
Current rights
All Rights Reserved
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Object detail
Brief Description
Christchurch Press clipping dated 22 February 1940 and displayed in a photograph album relating to the family of Percy Hamlin. The report describes an incident involving a de Havilland 84 twin-engined aeroplane used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for transport work and attached to Wigram, which had to make a forced landing near Waikuku. Seven passengers, all Air Force members, and the pilot, Flying Officer W T Ellison, escaped injury. The plane sustained some damage.
Production date
22 Feb 1940
Production period
Media/Materials description
Newspaper cutting
Measurements
Height x Width: 302 x 70mm
Classification terms
Subject period
Subject date
21 Feb 1940
Current rights
All Rights Reserved
Credit line
gifted by Jeff Chambers. Reproduced by the kind permission of Stuff
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Limited
Other number(s)
2018/9/33/18, 98232
Accession number
2018/9/33/18
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