VH-UVN  de Havilland D.H.84 Dragon II                  (c/n  6106)

                                       

                                      This is an enlargement from a small print from the Horrie Miller Collection, via the National
                                      Library of Australia.  VH-UVN was one of five D.H.84 Dragons operated by MacRobertson
                                      Miller Aviation from 1934 until the outbreak of WW II.    -UVN was used by Horrie Miller
                                      and Geoff Gregory, aviation officer for the Vacuum Oil Co. to survey the north-west air route
                                      from Perth to Broome.   It is seen in this photo taking shelter from the fierce W.A. sun at Ord
                                      River Station, circa 1936.  The Dragon had been purchased from W.S. Shackleton in June 1936
                                      and was ex G-AEFX.       It was written off when it crashed and burned near Broome, WA on
                                      7 January 1942.