VH-UAX Waco
UIC
(c/n 3749)

The Model UIC embodied many
improvements over earlier Model Cs. The 210 h.p. Continental
radial was tightly helmeted and the cabin top was glazed allowing good
rear vision. Note rather
odd rear cabin
window treatment. Some 70 were built. The shot
above, from the Geoff Goodall
collection, shows -UAX at Archerfield, Brisbane, in October 1935.
It was acquired by Aircrafts
Pty
Ltd., a forerunner of Queensland Airlines. The aircraft had been
delivered to the U.K. in 1933
as
G-ACGJ, and the image immediately below, from the John Oxley Library
collection at the State
Library
of Queensland shows it just after it had arrived at Archerfield and
still carrying its UK rego.
Finally, at the foot of the page is a take off from a John Player &
Sons cigarette card (circa 1936)
from a set I
have entitled "An Album of Aeroplanes (Civil)". VH-UAX
crashed near Brisbane in
May of
1942 and was not repaired. It languished at Archerfield
until 1947 when it was struck off
the
register.

