VH-UKD  Avro 594 Avian Mk IV  (c/n  R3/CN/201)

                              

                                  Photos of -UKD are rare.  Here's a nice one from the Frank Walters collection, via Geoff Goodall.
                                  Geoff also provides the shot below of it with wings folded, and with Bristol Tourer G-AUDZ in the
                                  background.      Geoff writes:  VH-UKD was owned by one of my favourite people, Henry Warren
                                  Grindrod Penny.  After flying in the RAAF during WW2 he formed the grandly-named Intercontinental
                                  Air Tours in Sydney, operating a Hudson, Lodestar & DH86 on migrant charters between Rome and
                                  Sydney.  At the time that this picture of his Avian was taken (circa 1929), he was flying around country
                                  WA and was described in a DCA file as “a gipsy joy-rider, who keeps one day ahead of our inspector's
                                  schedule at country aerodromes".  VH-UKD ended up as one of a number of civil machines at RAAF
                                  No. 1 Engineering School located at Melbourne Showgrounds and used for ground instruction along-
                                  side a collection of retired RAAF aircraft, which included a Vickers Wellesey of all things!