G-AUCU Curtiss Seagull
(c/n MF419/28)
This image is courtesy of the
State Library of South Australia collection and depicts this ancient
flying boat
being pushed through the shallows off the beach at Henley
Beach, S.A. circa 1923.
This,
and another Seagull, G-AUCV
evidently came into Australia in 1921 and were registered
to the Aerial
Company of Sydney. There appear to have been two co-owners
of this
concern,
one of
whom was Horace Clive Miller who later
established MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co
at
Adelaide's Parafield, with the financial backing of Sir Macpherson
Robinson, Australia's most
successful chocolate manufacturer. I am not sure if Miller used
-UCU for commercial purposes.
In
the event its Certificate of Registration lapsed in 1925 and was never
renewed.