G-AUEH  Airco D.H.9                                    (c/n  ?)

                                  

                                        The above is a generic photo of an Airco D.H.9, since I have been unable to a shot of the actual
                                        aircraft in either its military guise or as G-AUEH.  Formerly the RAAF's A6-4 it was on the civil
                                        register for a very short while and it is entirely possible that no photo of it as G-AUEH was ever
                                        taken.                                     .  
                                        Anyway, like its sister aircraft G-AUEG, it was loaned temporarily to the Civil Air Branch
                                       of the Department of Defence in  September 1924 as a back up aircraft for fledgling civil
                                       aerial services then being employed on air mail services.  In the event,  A6-4 crashed at
                                       Gunning, NSW in October 1924.  Its wings were restored by de Haviilland Aircraft of
                                       Australia, then based in South Melbourne, and it was returned to the RAAF as A6-4 in
                                       December of that year.