G-AUIB de
Havilland D.H.60G Gipsy Moth
(c/n 848)
Several images have come to light on this
aircraft. That above is from the the Neil Follett
collection
showing a line up of
Moths (and accompanying intrepid airmen),
probably at the South Australia
Section of the
Australian Aero Club,
circa 1929. The following two shots are from the State
Library of South
Australia collection. Upper shows it about to touch down
at a
"suggested site
for an airport -
1937" (it did not say where) and lower in a line up of RACSA machines
at Para-
field in
1938. By then all club machines had the tail stripes and
all had
been re-registered
VH-.
Cropped photo No 4
is from the State Library of New
South Wales collection
showing the
Moth
at an air
pageant at Mascot in 1938, probably after it had been
sold by the aero club to a
private
owner. Finally
at the foot of the page is an evocative shot from the Kevin OReilly
collection de-
picting -UIB
over Essendon when it was owned by Charlie Pratt in 1939.
This Moth went on to
serve in the
RAAF as A7-109. It was presumably struck off
charge in the early 1940s.