G-AUFB  Airco D.H.9C                               (c/n  853)

                              

                                   Two images of this old crate from the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland collection.
                                   The designation 9C was given to those ex-military machines which had been converted for civil use.
                                   G-AUFB began life as H9337 in the RAF and was civilianized as G-EBKV in 1926 and exported
                                   in July of that year to Australia for D.G. Brims & Sons Ltd of Brisbane.   It went to Courier Aircraft
                                   Ltd at the end of 1926 and was used, along with Avro 504K G-AUEW to deliver The Courier news-
                                   paper to rural areas.  The service was short-lived, however, and -UFB was sold in September 1927
                                   to Guinea Airways of Lae, NG.   It crashed into the Bulolo River, 8 miles north of Wau in March of
                                   1928 and, as such, was never re-registered into the VH-U series.