VH-UQB  de Havilland D.H. 80A A Puss Moth   (c/n 2051)

                         

                            Here's -UQB on a sunny day at Bankstown in January, 1954.       The Puss Moth was then owned
                            by Sid Marshall, whose "Marshall Airways" appears on the fin and rudder.  Note additional forward
                            wing strut.  I think this was fitted by Sid, as extra support.  At the foot of the page is a photo from the
                            State Library of NSW collection showing it in original configuration without this strut.  It was owned,
                            at the time, by J.C. 'Jimmy' Pollock and this shot was probably taken on the occasion of the inaugural
                            pageant celebrating the formation of the Kempsey Aero Club on the King's Birthday, 29 June 1936.
                         .  Note the Newcastle Aero Club's D.H. 60GIII Moth VH-URR in the background of this image.
                            The photo immediately below of -UQB was taken in 1969 outside Sid's hangar at Bankstown and is
                            from the archives of the Civil Aviation Historical Society. 
                            VH-UQB was originally imported from the U.K. in 1931 where it was previously G-ABDW.  It did,
                            in fact, return to the U.K. in 1973, being restored to its former registration, and is now on display at the
                            National Museums of Scotland, Museum of Flight at East Fortune.   The image below from the Bob
                            Livingstone collection (vis Ian Mcdonell) shows it as the original G-ABDW) circa 1931.

                       

                        

                         


   





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