VH-UUI General Aircraft Genairco Cabin                                     (c/n 17)

                                  
                        
                                   The two photographs above of a Genairco Cabin Biplane were taken decades apart.  The first was in the late 1950s
                                   at Benalla, Victoria.   The right hand shot was much later as evidenced by the background of Cessnas, Cherokees
                                   etc.   See VH-UOD for a description of the Genairco heritage.   This aircraft was built in 1930 and was originally
                                   VH-UOH.   It was sold in 1933 to Fiji Airways Ltd as VQ-FAC (the third aircraft on the Fiji register).  In 1936 it
                                   was repatriated back to Australia, becoming VH-UUI.  (Had it been in the U.K. it would reverted to its old regis-
                                   tration).   The shot immediately below is of the same vintage as the upper right one and is from the Geoff Goodall
                                   collection, taken at the 1965 Swan Hill airshow.  The final image at the bottom of the page from the John Hopton
                                   collection (via G. Goodall) shows the aircraft in the titling of its penultimate Australian owner, L.G. Stewart, dba
                                   Stewart's Albury Air Services.  From there it made the short trip to Wodonga for Joe Drage before being sold in
                                   the USA in 1966 as N240G.  It was destined for Polk City, Florida and became part of the Kermit Weeks' Fantasy
                                   of Flight collection. 

                                         

                                         





   





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