VH-UJK  de Havilland D.H.60G Gipsy Moth               (c/n  984)

                                       

                                           This Sam Hood photograph (via the State Library of NSW collection) is the only image I have
                                           been able to glean of this Gipsy Moth in one piece .      Since the caption states that it depicts
                                           "Frank Annabel arriving at Hargrave Park for an Air Pageant" that would date the photo to
                                           1930 or thereabouts..  The rough image below was earlier, and pre-VH-U days, taken from
                                            a newspaper photo from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 26 Octoiber 1929.  The caption
                                           read: :  "CAUGHT IN AIR POCKET, AEROPLANE CRASHES AT MASCOT.
                                                        Max Mitchell, the pilot, was injured yesterday, when this Gipsy Moth side-
                                                        slipped out oí an air pocket and crashed twenty feet to the ground.    The
                                                        wings were telescoped and the propeller broken off". 
                                          The original owner, on 21 March 1929  was R. Annabel and it was then sold to I. D. Master
                                          of Wellington, NSW in September 1931.   .   It was then brokered through de Havillands at
                                           Mascot in 1936 who refurbished it and resold it to the Whyalla Aero Club.      This outfit
                                           changed its name to Spencer Gulf Aero Club in 1938.          VH-UJK was evidently not
                                           impressed during the war and was finally withdrawn from use in August 1945 and broken
                                           up for spares.