First Canberra in HK Air Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle.

Sun, 01/06/2019 - 23:32

There is already a photograph on Gwulo of a different Canberra bomber at Kai Tak(?) but John noted that this was the first one to be flown into Kai Tak - now corrected to Sek Kong - in early 1956 by Air Marshall Sir Dermot Boyle.  As the newly appointed Chief of the Air Staff he was making a 20,000 mile tour of R.A.F. bases in the Middle and the Far East.

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14 Jan 1956
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China Mail 21 January 1956

Air Chief Marshal, Sir Dermot Boyle landed his Canberra bomber at Sek Kong Airfield on 14 January 1956. He flew in from Singapore.