VH-AAV  de Havilland D.H.87B Hornet Moth                 (c/n 8019)

                           

                              This print of mine, circa 1947 had a lot of light leakage and water marks.  I have tried to clean it up 
                              The image below from the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland collection is somewhat
                              nicer and predates mine by about a decade.  Both depict the Hornet Moth in service with the Royal
                              Queensland Aero Club.  The tail stripes were applied in the late 1930s.  VH-AAV was previously
                              registered in the U.K. as G-ADKF and came to Australia in August of 1937.   Interestingly it was
                              described by DCA as a D.H.87A (tapered wing) and registered as such, although it had already
                              been converted in the U.K. to the square wing variety before being shipped to Australia.   Possibly
                              the ID plate described it as an "A":    VH-AAV had an accident at Hughenden, Qld in December
                              1955 and appears not to have been registered after that.. .   

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