VH-UZU
VH-UZU is a Cessna C-37 Airmaster with links to Maylands Aerodrome. The C-37 was an advanced version of theearlier Cessna C-34 four-seat cabin monoplane and its Warner Scarab radial engines delivered exceptional performance for a 1930s aircraft. The Airmaster series were of wooden construction and had a metal tube fuselage frame, unlike the all-metal Cessnas […]
Southern Cross Minor/ VH-UQG
VH-UQG was an Avro Avian better known as Southern Cross Minor. Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes: MHS/FC 360. B&W photograph 1931. Charles Kingsford Smith (on wing) assisting in refuelling his Avro Avian VH-UQG prior to taking off on an unsuccessful attempt on the Australia-UK record.Alternative caption: A 1931 photograph of the marsh at the Wyndham, […]
RMA Murchison/ VH-URY
VH-URY MacRobertson Miller Aviation (MMA) ordered three D.H.84 Dragon IIs (VH-URW, VH-URX and VH-URY) after winning the Government tender for the North-West W.A. service. De Havilland Aircraft built the aircraft at its Hatfield factory in the UK, then dismantled them and crated them for shipment to Fremantle. VH-URY arrived in Fremantle in August 1934 and […]
RMA Kimberley/ VH-ABV
VH-ABW Both VH-ABV and its sister ship VH-ABW were Lockheed Electra 10A aircraft imported by MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co. (MMA) in 1938 for the North West run. Following their arrival in Adelaide on 5 December that year, both aircraft were assembled at Parafield. Both VH-ABV and VH-ABW were constructed by Lockheed at Burbank in California, […]
RMA Gascoyne/ VH-ABV
RMA Gascoyne was a plane that crashed and was recovered. Its registration was VH-ABV. We have a DVD of Kris Brimmell’s 2012 talk on the rescue of RMA Gascoyne. See our RMA Gascoyne Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.
RMA Fitzroy/ VH-AXM
VH-AXM The aircraft that would eventually be registered as VH-AXM was constructed as a Douglas C-47A-20-DL (manufacturer’s construction number 9350) at the Douglas plant in Long Beach, California in April 1943. It was allocated the U. S. serial number 42-23488 and delivered to the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) on 8 April 1943. In […]
The Pilbara
VH-URW was a DH.84 Dragon II built by De Havilland Aircraft at the Hatfield Factory in Hertfordshire UK. MMA ordered three D.H.84s (VH-URW, VH-URX and VH-URY) after winning the Government tender for theNorth-West W.A. service. DeHavilland dismantled those three Dragons (VH-URW, VH-URX and VH-URY) and crated them for shipment to Fremantle on the Aberdeen & […]
VH-ABV/RMA Gascoyne/VH-MMD and more!
VH-ABV/RMA Gascoyne/VH-MMD and more! VH-ABV VH-ABV was one of two Lockheed Electra 10A aircraft imported by MMA for the North West run. Both VH-ABV and its sister ship VH-ABW were Lockheed Electra 10A aircraft imported by MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co. (MMA) in 1938 for the North West run. Both VH-ABv and VH-ABW were constructed by […]
VH-URY/The Murchison/A34-6/John Flynn
VH-URY MacRobertson Miller Aviation (MMA) ordered three D.H.84 Dragon IIs (VH-URW, VH-URX and VH-URY) after winning the Government tender for the North-West W.A. service. De Havilland Aircraft built the aircraft at its Hatfield factory in the UK, then dismantled them and crated them for shipment to Fremantle. VH-URY arrived in Fremantle in August 1934 and […]
G-EBPP
G-EBPP /G-AUPP / VH-UPP In 1927, Major Hereward de Havilland shipped the Cirrus II Moth G-EBPP to Fremantle. It arrived in Perth in February 1927 and was assembled at Maylands Aerodrome. Some 4, 000 people watched its test flight at Maylands AerodromeMajor de Havilland flew G-EBPP from Perth on 24 February 1927 along the route […]