G-AUFR  de Havilland D.H.60 Moth                            (c/n  351)

                              

                                    Another Qantas image (above) from the Phil Vabre collection.  The registration looks a little
                                    touched up.  Imported by Qantas in 1927, this machine was sold to the Civil Air Branch of
                                    the Dept of  Defence for loaning out the the Australian Aero Clubs.  This one went to the
                                    Queensland Section.   It is seen below as VH-UFR in among a plethora of other Moths at
                                    an air pageant at Lismore, NSW in 1931 (courtesy of the Bruce Robinson collection).
                                    On 11 February 1934 it crashed on the roof of a house in Jurgens Street, South Brisbane. . 
                                    At the bottom of the page is a photo of this accident which appeared in the next day's Courier
                                    Mail.  The aircraft apparently spun in from some 3000 ft.   Fortunately the old roof gave way,
                                    cushioning the impact and neither the pilot nor his passenger, nor the inhabitants of the house
                                    were seriously injured.  Despite the fact that the newspaper report indicates that VH-UFR was
                                    "totally destroyed" it was, in fact repaired and by June of 1936 was registered to Skyways
                                    Australia Ltd, and based at Archerfield.  I believe they did skywriting.  VH-UFR was finally
                                    destroyed by fire whilst undergoing overhaul by Qantas at Archerfield in 1939.