G-AUAM  de Havilland D.H.60 Moth                                   (c/n  364)

                               

                                      This rare shot, from the South Australian Aviation Museum collection shows the first two Moths
                                      (G-AUAM and -UAP) which were loaned to the Australian Aero Club (SA Section) by the Civil
                                      Aviation Branch of the Dept of Defence at their inauguration in November 1927.  Both were short-
                                      lived with the club, G-AUAP being written off at Parafield on 11 March 1928 performing low
                                      aerobatics and G-AUAM when it was crashed by club member Leslie Napier Birks on 14 July
                                      1929.  Birks wss the son of the prominent Committee member Kyffin Birks and it was lster
                                      established that he was not medically fit for pilot instruction.