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Fairey Fox MLI aircraft

Details:

Title

Fairey Fox MLI aircraft,

Photo number

PH0238/1629,

Collection

Peter Spillett Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1935-02,

Location

Parap,

Description

Ray Parer in front of his Fairey Fox MLI aircraft G-ACXO (formerly RAF serial J7950) and named 'Morobe Goldfields New Guinea'. The aircraft was assigned Race No 35 in the 1934 Air Race for the Melbourne Centenary and Parer was accompanied by G E Hemsworth. The flight from Mildenhall commenced on 20 October 1934 and Parer took 116 days to complete the journey at Melbourne on 13 February 1935.,

Notes

Date:1935-02,

Language

English,

Subject

aeroplanes,

Digital format

1200dpi ; 50.25Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : b&w ; 11 x 7 cm.,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/12069,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/12069

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/749925,