Maurice Buckley plane - first plane to West Coast,1924.

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DescriptionMaurice Buckley plane, first plane to West Coast 1924, railed to Hokitika and wheeled around to Revell St garage, assembled, wheeled to beach doing flights 10 mins 10 shillings.

Dr Teichellman chartered it to fly to glaciers, had cloud around and waited till clear. Landed at Okarito later afternoon on beach, wheeled up to Strand to stay night. Sea cut beach away during night so plane had to be loaded onto George Northcrofts punt to take across to mudflats to enable take off again.

Peter Lewis
Avro 504K H5241, civil registration G-NZAO allocated but not used.
Carried out 1st flight across Southern Alps (Greymouth-Chch) 4Jun24
Reverted to NZ Defence Force, WFU Wigram after cr Feb26.Date of Photo1924Map^[1]ContributorAnthea Keenan

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Location (city or town)HokitikaPersonMaurice Buckley Dr TeichellmanEventFirst plane to West Coast,1924.

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Date Created30th May 2022CommentsLyn N Moe
Great story Anthea.

Anthea Keenan
It's really Max Dowell info. and his pic Moe, he's got some great historic photos and knowledge.

Anthea Keenan
George Northcroft punt used for flax mill at top of Okarito they produced Kino Brand Hemp.
Wjohn Sweney
Aunty Thora had an early flight in a Miles Messenger? Thora Chinn/ Dave Chinn...

Liz Hay
My aunt, Thora Chinn (nee Sweney) was one of the children taken up for a flight. I don't think a child would have paid 10s. That was a lot of money in those days.
David Cook
Love these little snippets of history.

Tania Wilmott
How cool!

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