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The G-AUFD story

G-AUFD was one of the DH-50As constructed at Maylands Aerodrome by West Australian Airways Limited (WAA) under licence to the De Havilland Co. of UK.
 
G-AUFD was completed and test flown in late 1926 and registered to WAA on 1 December 1926.
 
G-AUFD was built for use on the north-west air service.
 
WAA replaced G-AUFD’s 230 hp Siddeley Puma engine with an ADC Nimbus.
 
WAA wrote off G-AUFD when it was damaged beyond repair after it crashed near Geraldton in 1929. G-AUMC then replaced G-AUFD on the north-west service.

From our Frank Colquhoun collection

Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes:

  • FC 077. 1926. Maylands Airfield. DH-50A aircraft G-AUFD under construction at West Australian Airways Limited. Several of these aircraft were constructed under licence to the de Havilland Co. of UK. This image also appears on page 23 of Frank Colquhoun’s 2001 book Cockpit and Spanner.

For more information

See our G-AUFD Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.

Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have passed away.