Smithy's wet and wild visit to Kempsey's Frogmore air strip

By Phil Lee
Updated June 22 2021 - 12:15am, first published June 18 2021 - 9:30am
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (centre) with transport pioneer George Robinson (far left) at Lismore in 1933. Photo: Robinson Collection MRHS
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith (centre) with transport pioneer George Robinson (far left) at Lismore in 1933. Photo: Robinson Collection MRHS

SIR Charles Kingsford-Smith (Smithy) and his Fokker monoplane Southern Cross were already famous by 1933 when he came to Kempsey.

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