More Info →The Southern Cross at Sockburn, Christchurch

Description

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

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