VH-UMG  Avro 618 Ten                                   (c/n 230)       
                 
                           

                               This interesting shot from the AJ Jackson collection shows VH-UMG  'Southern Star' at Croydon
                               in 1931.  Charles Kingsford Smith had just delivered Christmas mail from Australia in it, with a view
                               perhaps of opening up a regular service.  The beautiful image of VH-UMG (below) is from the David
                               Molesworth collection and shows the aircraft over the St. Kilda (Melbourne) Esplanade in January of
                               1932.   VH-UMG crashed on landing at Mascot on 21 November 1936, although almost a year went
                               by before it was officially struck off the register.
 
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