MAYLANDS HISTORICAL AND PENINSULA ASSOCIATION

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VH-UFN was a West Australian Airways DH50A aircraft.

Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes:

  • FC_197. 1930. Noonkanbah. The WAA DH50A aircraft VH-UFN as it finished its belly run crash landing. The displaced undercarriage damaged the lower port mainplane and broke propeller blades. The passengers Sam Thomas and ‘Dad’ Cunningham, along with crew member Frank Colquhuon were shaken but unharmed. This image also appears on page 26 of Frank Colquhoun’s 2001 book Cockpit and Spanner
  • FC_286. B&W photograph. Aircraft VH-UFN
  • FC 292. B&W photograph. 1920, Derby, Western Australia. The dismantled components of West Australian Airways DH50A aircraft VH-UFN loaded aboard the 6-wheeler Morris truck of trucker George Lovell outside his Derby home.
    This image also appears on page 28 of Frank Colquhoun’s 2001 book Cockpit and Spanner.

See our VH-UFN 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.