Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, in his aircraft Southern Cross, completed the first trans-Pacific flight The aircraft was guided in the last leg of it’s history making flight by the RAN’s wireless station at Garden Island, Sydney, which relayed messages through Australian destroyers stationed in the Tasman and Coral Seas.
Australian Naval History on 9 June 1928
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