VH-ULV  Waco 10T                        (c/n  A.100)

                                  

                                       Developed from the docile 'Waco Ten' the Model 10T Taperwing transformed the aircraft into a
                                       truly sportsman-pilots dream machine.  The State Library of Queensland, from whom this image
                                       comes, does not identify the three gentlemen.  This aircraft was orignally registered to Aircrafts
                                       Pty Ltd of Archerfield, Brisbane in August 1929.   Since this photograph was taken in Queensland,
                                       and since the aicraft departed for New Guinea in 1931 (never to return to the mainland) I suspect
                                       that these individuals were the founders of Aircrafts P/L.  Note rego applied under the cockpits
                                       allowing fuselage space for the Waco logo.  As stated, -ULV was sold in October 1931 to Holden's
                                       Air Transport Services Ltd of Salamaua, New Guinea.   It was sold to J.W. Williams of Fly River,
                                       Papua late in 1936 and then to Stephens Aviation of Wau in mid 1937.   Later that year it forced
                                       landed in a swamp, but by 1939 had been rebuilt.   VH-ULV was destroyed by a Japanese air attack
                                       on Salamaua, New Guinea on 21 January 1942.   (The Nips probably thought it was a deadly P-6
                                       or something of that nature!).