G-AUEJ  de Havilland D.H.50A                           (c/n  130)

                              

                                   Larkin Aircraft Supply Company Ltd of Melbourne liked to name all their aircraft.  This one was
                                   "Wattle Bird" and the tilting is seen in script on the fin in this image from the Hood Collection,
                                   via the State Library of New South Wales collection.   It appears, in this shot, to be powered by
                                   its original 230 hp Siddeley Puma but at some point in time this was exchanged for a Bristol Jupiter.
                                   The two images below are from the Daryl Mackenzie collection and show (upper) the aircraft at
                                   Charlotte Waters, NT  (which outpost was established in 1871 just across the SA/NT border by
                                   two surveyors, McMinn and Knuckley during the construction of the telegraph line) and (lower, at
                                   the foot of the page) now re-registered as VH-UEJ and with its name redrawn in capital letters.
                                   At the foot of the page is an extract from the (Adelaide) Register News-Pictorial for 14 February
                                   1930 showing -UEJ and describing the D.H.50 as having been reconditioned and modernized and
                                   as being one of the aircraft used in Larkin's service between Camooweal and Daly Waters.
                                   As VH-UEJ the aircraft was destroyed by fire during a forced landing at Methul, NSW on 9 June
                                   1932.