G-AUAK   de Havilland D.H.60 Moth         (c/n  242)

                              

                                    This Moth was one of several owned by the Civil Aviation Branch, Department of Defence,
                                    Commonwealth of Australia, in the late 1920s and loaned out to various aero clubs, in this
                                    case the Australian Aero Club (NSW Section).  This rare photograph comes to me courtesy of
                                    Wal Ives.   After re-registration as VH-UAK in 1930 this aircraft was owned by a variety of
                                    aero clubs and private owners, including one or two in New Guinea.  It  returned to the mainland
                                    in 1939.  Since it had suffered a crash at Mascot in 1941 it was never impressed into military service
                                    like many Moths were.  Attempts to restore it after WW II failed and it was finally struck off the
                                    register in 1946.