On February 27, 1931, Oscar Garden landed a DH 60 de Havilland Gipsy Moth named
Kia Ora at Horseshoe Bay.
The flight came about after a £5 bet with Myross Bush man Geoff Todd.
Todd was in the Gipsy Moth with Garden, a model of plane that the Tiger Moth would replace.
It seems most of the town went to the beach to watch.
At that time, only a few planes had flown over the island before, and some children were so frightened at the sight of an aircraft approaching they ran and hid in the bush.
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The first flight over the island was 10 years earlier, on January 13, 1921.