D-1925
D-1925 was a Junkers Aircraft known as ‘Atlantis’. Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes: FC_267. Photograph. 1932. Junkers Aircraft D-1925 ‘Atlantis’ being lifted from the water for removal of floats.This image also appears on page 71 of Frank Colquhoun’s 2001 book Cockpit and Spanner FC_268. Photograph. Aircraft D-1925. See our D-1925 Flickr Album for digitised images […]
Bungana
As with other Australian National Airways (ANA) plane’s, this plane’s name ended in ‘ana’. This Douglas Airliner, considered a giant in 1936, could carry 14 passengers. Bungana dwarfed a D.H. Gipsy Moth parked alongside it at the Maylands Aerodrome in 1937. Bungana flew at 210 miles per hour and inaugurated a new Perth-Adelaide service on […]
B M Pattinson
The VH-URE story VH-URE was a DH 84 Dragon made by De Havilland. It was number 465. VH-URE was first received by West Australian Airways Ltd at their hangar at Maylands Aerodrome in 1933 . It was first registered on 29th August 1933, owned by West Australian Airways Ltd and used on the Perth-Adelaide Air […]
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 […]
VH-URX/The Gascoyne/A34-1
Built in the UK for MMA MacRobertson Miller Aviation (MMA) ordered three D.H.84 Dragon IIs after winning the Government tender for the North-West W.A. service. De Havilland Aircraft built those aircraft (that became VH-URW, VH-URX and VH-URY) at its Hatfield factory in the UK, then dismantled them and crated them for shipment to Fremantle. As […]
VH-AMV A17-315
A DH82A Tiger Moth produced for De Havilland in Australia with the production number DHA334 was operated by the RAAF as A17-315 and also registered as VH-AMV. In 1941, A17-315 was photographed at No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (10 EFTS), the flying school set up by The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at Temora […]