On 30 June 1926 Alan Cobham left the Medway at Rochester in the DH50 G-EBFO on a commercial route survey for Imperial Airways to Melbourne, arriving on 15 August. He left Melbourne on 29 August and after completing 28,000 miles in 78 days with 320 hours flying the DH50 alighted on the Thames at Westminster on 1 October.
Cobham was met on arrival by the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, and was subsequently knighted by HM King George V.
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