Group of the first nine graduates of the Canterbury Aviation Company, in front of a Caudron aircraft. Sockburn Aerodrome.
L-R: JC Mercer (7), JE Stevens (3), EAF Wilding (1), CM Hill - Instructor, ET Sutherland (8), CJ McFadden (4), J Mackie - Engineer, HN Hawker (2), LA Limbrick (5), EJ Orr (6), R Brodie (9).
Image from the Ronald Glanville MacDonald personal album collection.
Three trainee pilots relax on a small sofa on the grass in front of 'Block 7' (visible behind) at Sockburn Aerodrome.
Image from the Harold Lord Piper personal collection.
Portrait of Harold Lord Piper from his Aviator's certificate.
Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 166.
Image from the Arthur Gordon Webster personal collection.
Portrait of Arthur Gordon Webster from his Aviator's certificate.
Canterbury Aviation Company graduate No. 54.
Three men and a boy standing in front of a Canterbury Aviation Company Caudron in a hangar at Sockburn Aerodrome.
Bert Mercer (far right), Cecil Hill (second from right). John Mackie(?)
Two Canterbury Aviation Company student pilots (far right) with the Chief Flying Instructor Cecil Hill (second from left) and an Army Officer, in front of a Caudron at Sockburn Aerodrome.
Image from the Doug Fyfe personal collection.
Copy of part of a page from The Weekly Press, 13 March 1918, page 23, with a story about a pupil of the Canterbury Aviation Company, CA Fyfe, becoming lost in cloud and being 'rescued' by the assistant instructor, JC Mercer.
