Polynesian Plane
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Is Flown Away
Early in September, Poly nesian Airlines lost possession of the DC4 it was leasing from the Charlotte Aircraft Corporation of North Carolina. Mr. Martin, representing the Corporation, who caused a sensation in August by chaining the plane’s wheels when it was at Tafuna airport in American Samoa, brought a crew down from the US and had the plane flown to Hawaii.
Litigation over the whole deal is still pending, but meanwhile Polynesian is chartering a Fiji Airways 748 for its Tonga and Fiji flights and relying on its remaining DC3 for its now twice daily service to Pago.
Polynesian managing director E. F. Paul meanwhile predicted the purchase of its own jet-prop or jet aircraft within the next few years.