G-AUCO    Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2e                 (c/n  61)

                                  

                                          DCA had very little on this machine when I copied the details from the old ledgers in 1953.
                                          The entry merely said "Crashed before Registration".   Well, the rego was certainly painted
                                          on before it overturned during a forced landing near Branxton, NSW in July 1921 as the
                                          image above attests.    It was rebuilt as G-AUDV and "officially" entered into the register in
                                          November 1922, possibly as a landplane.  It then had a series of owners in Queensland and
                                          NSW before it was written off when damaged by high winds at Sydney in 1931.