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Bert Hinkler and G-EBOV at Maylands

In 1928, Australian aviator Bert Hinkler flew Avro 581 Avian G-EBOV on the first solo flight between England and Australia. Having left London/Croydon on 7 February, he arrived in Darwin on 22 February, smashing the old record time of 28 days for a flight between England and Australia. He flew on to his home town of Bundaberg in Queensland arriving on 27 February. Hinkler and G-EBOV then began a tour that included Australia’s capital cities and a number of regional centres.

That tour included flying G-EBOV from Melbourne to Perth. His wife, who had travelled to Fremantle on a mail boat, flew back to Queensland with her husband. Frank Colquhoun’s photographs show Bert Hinkler’s Avro Avian at Maylands, where WA Airways engineers removed the long-range fuel tank from the front cockpit so his wife could fly with him.

Hinkler gifted G-EBOV to the Queensland Government and it is now part of the Queensland Museum & Science Centre’s collection.

Our Frank Colquhoun Collection

Our Frank Colquhoun Collection includes:

  • MHS/FC 168. 1928. The Avro Avian flown from England to Australia in record time by Bert Hinkler. Later, Hinkler flew it to Perth where WA Airways removed the long-range tanks from the front cockpit so he could pick up his wife, who had arrived in Fremantle on a mail boat and fly her back to their home state of Queensland.

  • After a record-breaking flight from England to Australia, Bert Hinkler flew his Avro Avian to Maylands where engineers removed the long-range fuel tank from the front cockpit so his wife could fly back to Queensland with him.

For more information

See our G-EBOV Flickr Album

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.

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