G-AUBM Avro 504K
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This aircraft crashed before it could be
registered. Now, those of you who read my
narratives know that I used
to work for the Department of Civil Aviation in Little Collins
Street,
Melbourne. When I first transcribed the Australian Civil Aircraft
Register initially,
sixty years
ago, I had this 504K listed as ex A2486. Several
later historians have it
recorded
as H2486. However, that latter machine was destroyed in a ground
collision
with
another 504K, H9718 at Abu Sueir, Egypt in October 1927, long
after the potential
G-AUBM would have
demised. So, possibly the hand-written entry in the
DCA ledger
was deciphered
differently by myself and A2486 (if that was, indeed, an Avro 504K) was
correct.
In any event, as stated, the aircraft never did receive a civil CofA
and possibly a
photo of it
was never taken.