G-AUAE de
Havilland D.H.60 Moth (c/n 192)

The
above
photograph comes courtesy of the John Hassard/John Hopton Collection
via the Airways
Museum and Civil Aviation
Historical Society. The image immediately below is
from the State
Library of New South Wales collection,
taken probably in 1930 just after it had been re-registered
into the VH-U series.
It was operated at the time by the Australian Aero Club (NSW Section).
These early Moths had an axled
undercarriage. Later variants used the split (individiual) axled type
with bungee shocks. This aircraft
was, like many early Moths, later
updated to D.H.60G status,
and is still on the
register today. Photo No. 3 was taken by Bob
Neate, (via Geoff Goodall) and
shows -UAE as it appeared at
Forbes, NSW in
May of 1964, and No. 4 at the foot of the page is
a nice (fairly contemporary) image of
it by Phil Vabre
taken at the AAAA Fly-In at Swan Hill in
April of 2005. For
more fascinating details on its history go to:
http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/DH60%20G-AUAE.htm
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