VH-UIR de Havilland D.H.60G Gipsy Moth
(c/n 894)

This Moth was delivered to Qantas in in
February 1929, although sold the following month to
the
similarly named (although totally different) Queensland Air Navigation
Ltd in whose check-
ered fin and
rudder livery it is seen here. Photo from the John Oxley
Library, State Library of
Queensland collection. Qantas must also have been some sort of
D.H. dealer in those days since
they
bought it back on 9 February 1931 only to sell it again two days later
to a private owner in
Beaudesert, Queensland. Following a couple of other owners
in NSW, VH-UIR was sold in
New
Zealand in August 1934 becoming ZK-ADG.