MAYLANDS HISTORICAL AND PENINSULA ASSOCIATION

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 Aerodrome
Major de Havilland flew G-EBPP from Perth on 24 February 1927 along the route of the Trans Continental Railway and arrivied at Melbourne on 28 February. His mission was to establish an Australian Branch of the De Havilland Aircraft Co.

De Havilland Australia, the first overseas subsidiary of the De Havilland company was incorporated in March 1927 and started its operations in Australia by assembling imported Moths in a rented shed in Melbourne. Other overseas De Havilland Aircraft companies were established in Canada (1928), India (1929) and South Africa (1930).

G-EBPP was later registered as G-AUPP (to the De Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd, Melbourne and then to Golden Aircraft Co, Mascot) and as VH-UPP (to W Rhodes & J W Paulden, Ballan, Victoria.

Registration VH-UPP was cancelled in 1931 and the aircraft written off after it crashed at Geelong, Victoria on 27 January 1931 killing its pilot ( J W Paulden) and passenger (Eric Morris).

Our Frank Colquhoun collection

Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes:

• FC 167. Aircraft G-EBPP inside a hangar
• FC 168. Aircraft G-EBPP inside a hangar.

For more information

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