VH-AAO (1)  de Havilland D.H.84 Dragon            (c/n  6112)

                         

                              VH-AAO was one of the last imports to arrive in Australia at the outbreak of WW II.  It was
                              the former G-AEMK and was impressed into the RAAF as A34-5 almost as soon at it arrived.                              
                              It was restored to Butler Air Transport during the war and is seen above in camouflage in this
                              image from the Geoff Goodall collection.  It continued to fly BAT's NSW airline routes after the
                              war, until 20 December 1947 when it was hit by a storm while parked at Coonamble aerodrome.
                              The Dragon was blown across the aerodrome boundary into the Castlereagh River and completely
                              wrecked.