The Southern Cross at Sockburn, Christchurch
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A photograph in the same set as this was published September 1928 in the Manawatu Daily Times over the news heading "Steering a Plane". The caption underneath reads, "The Southern Cross at Sockburn - a photograph specially taken showing the huge wing-spread of the airplane which carried Kingsford-Smith and his companions to success in the trans-Tasman flight". The Southern Cross, piloted by Kingsford Smith, also landed in Palmerston North in 1933.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- Public Photograph Collection Av 44
- Date
- September 1928
- Digitisation id
- 2014N_Av44_009529
- Held in
- Coolstore
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Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Sockburn, Christchurch
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