When was Singapore’s first air show?

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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Bristol Box-Kite biplane taken from Singapore’s first air show! By the looks of the plane in this picture, it was very, very old indeed. So when was Singapore’s first air show? Uncle Dicko shares with us from his news clipping archive.

The first air show over Singapore happened almost a hundred years ago. Uncle Dicko writes:

“The first photo captured the very first air show in Singapore back in March 1911. The plane in the picture was a Bristol Box-Kite biplane piloted by Mr Joseph Christiaens. You can see the profile of the pilot against the sky. He took off from the Race Course ( Farrer Park today ).

Anyone remembers the building in the background? The roof and that bell-shaped tower looks rather familiar to me. I am quite familiar with the Farrer Park of the60’s onwards. It is no longer there today, of course.”

Does anyone know what the building in the background is? Leave a reply on Uncle Dicko’s post here. You can also read about Uncle Dicko’s memories of Clifford Pier in the same post.

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