Solent Flying Boat Preservation Society oral history interview with Cliff Le Couteur
Maker and role
Cliff Le Couteur, Interviewee
Geoff Freer, Interviewer
Solent Flying Boat Preservation Society, Commissioned by
Production date
27 Feb 1992
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Object detail
Accession number
07-578
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Description
Oral history interview with Cliff Le Couteur covering his career as a pilot of flying boats for Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes information about delivery flight for Short Solent flying boat ZK-AMO, trans-Tasman flights, surveying landing sites for Coral Route from Auckland to Papeete.
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Physical description
2 sound cassettes (ca. 114 minutes) : analog; MP3 and WAV files on drive (122 minutes)
Credit line
Cliff Le Couteur et al. 27 Feb 1992. Solent Flying Boat Preservation Society oral history interview with Cliff Le Couteur, 07-578. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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Interviews
Le Couteur, Cliff
Anecdotes
New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Tasman Empire Airways Limited
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Employees
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Union Airways of New Zealand Limited
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Short Sunderland
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Catalina (Seaplane)
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Instrument flying
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Short Solent
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Douglas DC-4
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Short Sandringham
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Coral Route
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Transtasman flights
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Transpacific flights
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