VH-UQH de
Havilland D.H.60M Moth (c/n 1685)

Photo, from the Geoff Goodall collection, of a
very average looking Metal Moth taken at Longreach,
Queensland circa 1932 when
the aircraft was owned by R.S. White of Esk, Qld. It was
the former
G-ABHY and had broken
the England-Australia record the previous year when it had been flown
out
solo by C.W.A. Scott
in 9 days, 4 hours and 11 minutes, arriving at Darwin on 10 April
1931. It had
six or seven owners
over the next two decades and wound up in Carnarvon, WA in 1952,
although
was never impressed into
RAAF service during the war. VH-UQH was severely damaged
by a
cyclone at Winning Pool
Station, WA on 22 March 1953 and was officially stricken from the
register
later that year.