The First Handley Page Hastings to Visit New Zealand

Brian Lockstone
The Aero Historian , Volume 60, Issue 4
Pages 140-142
01 December 2017
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WHAT WAS PROBABLY the first genuine British post-war four-engined landplane transport to visit New Zealand would be the Handley Page C.1 Hastings TG503 which landed at Whenuapai on 25 April 1948 after a lengthy trip from the United Kingdom on a joint sales and testing expedition..
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