About this item
- Title
- The Southern Cross at Sockburn, Christchurch
- Content partner
- Palmerston North City Library
- Collection
- Manawatū Heritage
- 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.
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- 1928-09
- URL
- https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/f8542968-7819-4251-b484-117bab142da1
- Locations
- Sockburn, Christchurch
- Related subjects
- aeroplane / airplane / aviation / biplane / flight / photographs / plane / transport
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