VH-AAA de Havilland D.H.83 Fox Moth                     (c/n  DHA6)

                                

                                     VH-AAA was built at Mascot by de Havilland Aircraft Pty Ltd to the order of the Bush Church Aid
                                     Society of Ceduna SA.  It was dedicated at a service at Sydney's St. Andrew Cathedral on 19 Feb
                                     1938 and then flown to Ceduna.   It was used to take a doctor to outback medical clinics and could
                                     carry a stretcher patient.   DCA ordered civil aircraft to be painted in camouflage in 1942 until the
                                     threat of a possible Japanese invasion decreased.    This Fox Moth was later reregistered VH-CAS
                                     for "Church Aid Society" then sold as VH-GAS.  Image above from the Geoff Goodall collection.