G-AUGD  de Havilland D.H.50A                     (c/n  QANTAS 3)

                             

                                    The John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, from whose collection this image comes,
                                    states that the caption on the original of this photograph indicates that this was the first aircraft
                                    used as an air ambulance, and flew out of Aldingham, in the Winton District of  Queensland to
                                    Mascot in 1927.   It was registered to, and assembled by, Qantas, Ltd of Longreach, Qld  and
                                    named 'Pegasus'.    By 1930 it had been re-registered VH-UGD and was owned by the Aero
                                    Club of NSW.   It was later acquired by Les Holden for his New Guinea based Holden Air
                                    Transport and flown to Salamaua, New Guinea in September 1932..  (Les was to perish that
                                    same  month while travelling as a passenger in a New England Airways Puss Moth from Sydney
                                    to Brisbane when the aircraft crashed near Byron Bay).    In October 1932 -UGD had a Jupiter
                                    engine installed, replacing the original Armstrong Siddeley Puma..  Holden's continued to use the
                                    machine until 1936 when it was withdrawn from use.