That event was nothing other than an aircraft landing at Block Block, something which today is so commonplace that hardly anyone even looks up when a plane is on its final approach to New Plymouth Airport.
But on January 11, 1933, the landing was a big occasion, because the aircraft was the Southern Cross, a three-engined Fokker Trimotor with Australian registration VH-USU, piloted by the famous Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
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But on January 11, 1933, the landing was a big occasion, because the aircraft was the Southern Cross, a three-engined Fokker Trimotor with Australian registration VH-USU, piloted by the famous Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
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