27 December 1926 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.66 Hercules G-EBMX left Croydon for a survey flight to India. The flight reached Karachi on 6 January and Delhi on 8 January.
The aircraft was named City of Delhi by Lady Irwin, wife of the Viceroy, on 10 January 1927. The return flight left on 1 February 1927 and arrived at Heliopolis, Cairo on 7 February. The flying time from Croydon to Delhi was 62 hours 27 minutes and Delhi to Heliopolis 32 hours 50 minutes.
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