• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003638

Helen Blackburn talking to Margaret Travers in Orange, NSW on 30 December 1995. sound recording

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  • Reference 629.13092 BLA
  • Date Range 20-Dec-95 - 20-Dec-95
  • Description

    1 sound cassette with transcript (13 p.) and one sheet of information. Helen Blackburn tells of learning to fly in the US in 1944 and her experiences with the Aero Club of Adelaide from 1946 on. She gained both her private and commercial licences and won many competitions. She obtained her own plane in 1962 (a Cessna 172) and flew mercy missions from Darwin and also shell collecting forays. She describes the early AWPA.
  • Access Available for reference in the library and ILL

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  • Primary Creator
    • Blackburn, Helen Carola (1918 - 2005)

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