VH-UDD de Havilland D.H.83 Fox Moth                  (c/n  4063)

                                

                                A "prohibited registration" at the time (1921) when the VH-Us were assigned this
                                Fox Moth was registered in 1936 to MacRobertson Miller Aviation (actually their
                                first aircraft).  It is seen  above in this image from the Geoff Goodall collection at
                                Victor Harbour, SA, circa 1936.   The two young ladies had just taken a joyride
                                in it at the South Australia seaside town.  MMA's chocolate brown titling can
                                barely be discerned on the nose.   This Fox Moth had previously been G-ACGN
                                and flown during 1935 on a tour of the U.K. by "C.W.A. Scott's Air Display" before
                                being purchased by MMA in November 1935 and shipped to Australia.   MMA
                                later transferred -UDD to their Perth division until it was sold in January 1940 to
                                Madang Aerial Transport Co in New Guinea.    The washed out image below,
                                from my own collection, shows it in Perth in 1936.  During 1941 it was impressed
                                by the RAAF in New Guinea but found to be in poor condition and was dismantled
                                for parts.  It was among the many aircraft destroyed by Japanese attacks on NG
                                airfields during Feb and March 1942.