VH-UVU  Tugan LJW.7 Gannet        (c/n   TA.54)

                              
   
                                 This is a sister aircraft to VH-UVY.   The photo above, from the John Oxley Library, State Library
                                 of Queensland shows the aircraft when new as delivered by Tugan Aircraft in February 1936. It was
                                 sold to W.A.S.P. Airlines a month later and evidently the outboard tailplane fins were dispensed
                                 with (see photograph below).  Incidentally, all RAAF Gannets for which I have observed images have
                                 retained the triple fins.   The inscription on the nose of the original of the photograph below says
                                 'Western W.A.S.P. Airlines'.  Both images were taken at Mascot.  In the lower one the name of  the
                                 airport is spelled out on the hangar roof for the benefit of  lost pilots.   VH-UVU had a variety of
                                 owners in its lifetime including Airlines of Australia and Butler Air Transport.  It was withdrawn from
                                 use in 1945 and appears never to have been impressed into military service during WW II.