G-AUIB de
Havilland D.H.60G Gipsy Moth
(c/n 848)

Several images have come to light on this
aircraft. That above is from the the Neil Follett
collection
showing a line up of
Moths (and accompanying intrepid airmen),
probably at the South Australia
Section of the
Australian Aero Club,
circa 1929. The following two shots are from the State
Library of South
Australia collection. Upper shows it about to touch down at a
"suggested site
for an airport -
1937" (it did not say where) and lower in a line up of RACSA machines
at Para-
field in
1938. By then all club machines had the tail stripes and all had
been re-registered
VH-.
Finally, at the foot
of the page is a cropped photo from the State Library of New
South Wales
collection
showing the
Moth at an air pageant at Mascot in 1938, probably after it had been
sold
by the aero club to a
private owner. VH-UIB went on to serve in the
RAAF as A7-109. It was
presumably struck off
charge in the early 1940s.


