VH-UGC  Stinson SR-7B                                                   (c/n  9668)

                                    
                                
                                         A prohibited registration at the time of its original sequence (1927), the marking VH-UGC was
                                         allotted to this Stinson of Guinea Airways in 1936.  It had been purchased, along with VH-URC
                                         in June of that year.  The above image is from the Peter N. Johnston collection, whilst the grainy
                                         shot below was taken from a publication I found in my father's papers and depicts the aircraft at
                                         Wai Wai, circa 1938 whilst it was being used in support of US and Dutch surveyors in the west
                                         of the Mandate (in what is today Irian Jaya).  The image at the bottom of the page is from the
                                         Geoff Goodall collection, and shows -UGC in New Guinea, probably at Wau, in the 1930s.
                                         The big Stinson was one of those aircraft destroyed on the ground by Japanese fighters in
                                         January of 1942, probably at Salamaua.