Extract from Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland for the year 1926: “Aviation. The work of preparing the route for the Imperial Airways Ltd., service from Cairo to Karachi was continued. Colonel Shelmerdine, representing the Air Ministry, and Mr. Wolley Dod, representing Imperial Airways, Ltd., toured the Persian Gulf, selecting suitable aerodromes and proposing improvements to those in existence. On the 26th March two Danish aviators, Lieutenants, Botved and Herchend, arrived from 'Iraq on their flight from Copenhagen to Tokio. They left the next day. On the 13th April Captains Loriga and Gallanza, Spanish aviators, passed through on their flight from Madrid to the Philippines. On the 16th May Lieutenant Herchend returned on his way back to Copenhagen, and left the next day. On the 13th July Mr. (now Sir Alan) Cobham arrived on his sea-plane flight to Australia, and left for India the next day. He passed through again on the 26th on his return flight to England. On the 26th December, Messrs. Stack and Leete arrived on their Moths en route to India. This was the first long distance flight on such small machines.” (Captain Wolley Dod was Chief Pilot, Eastern Routes and then Manager, Near East Division, Imperial Airways, Heliopolis.) Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [491r] (986/1028) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) Extract from Administration Report of the Mekran Coast for the year 1926: “Aeroplanes. – Captain Oliver and Brooks arrived at Jask from Karachi on 4th March intending to fly to London but abandoned the flight on account of serious engine trouble. The aeroplane was left at Jask. A French Breguet aeroplane with aviators Costes and Regnot landed at Jask on a non-stop flight from Paris on 29th October and left for Charbar on 1st November. The aeroplane passed North of Jask on its return from India on 7th November.” Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [503r] (1010/1028) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa)
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