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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1979Vol. 50, No. 2

[?]SPIA’s Twin

p. 69 · Read in the full issue

[?]Otter at work

South Pacific Island Airway’s latest acquisition, a twin engined jet-prop De Havilland Dash 6 Twin Otter has been in operation between Apia, West ern Samoa, and Pago Pago, American Samoa, since late October. On its way to Apia from Toronto, Canada, the air :raft was flown to Fanning Island, south of Hawaii, which has no navigation aids, to check fut its VLF/ Omega navigation ystem. The Cessna 402 which >vas on the Apia-Pago service is ww used exclusively for charter lights.