VH-BXB de Havilland D.H.94 Moth Minor
(c/n DHP19)
Here's -BXB at Moorabbin on New
Years Eve, 1961. It was later to crash on
takeoff at
Koyuga, Vic on 15 September 1963.
This
aircraft had been civilianized from A21-40 in
December 1946 as VH-AXB,
becoming -BXB in 1949
when the VH-AX- series became
prohibited registrations. Photo above from the
Geoff Goodall collection. Following this take-
off crash it was still
largely in one piece and was sold "as is" to Ryan
Equipment Co of Shepparton
who reassembled it as a display in
front of their machinery
yard. Unfortunately it was blown
on its back around 1966 in a
wind storm and the wreck was dumped at
the back of their yard
Geoffrey Goodall found it on a
farm near Shepparton in May 1967 and took the photo below.
In June
the following year these mortal remains
were further stripped by a party from the
Moorabbin Air Museum who
were invited to take any useful parts.