VH-ULT de Havilland D.H.60G Gipsy Moth
(c/n 1060)
Following a couple of private owners since its first
registration in August 1929, this Moth
passed to the Aero Club of Western
Australia in 1936. A year later the club was accorded
'Royal' status and became the RACWA. VH-ULT is
seen at Maylands, circa 1936 in the
image above from
the
Geoff Goodall collection. Below it is seen in this National
Library of
Australia collection photograph, circa
1933 with Keith and Betty Lawson of Naracoorte SA,
the original owners of
the Moth. In 1939 it was operated for a few months by the
Western
Australia
Goldfields Aero
Club at Kalgoorlie before being impressed into RAAF service early
in 1940 as
A7-75. After the war the airframe was used for instructional
purposes by the Dept
of Technical
Education..
By 1964 the fuselage of -ULT had been salvaged by the Camden
Museum of
Aviation in NSW, where it now hangs, painted up as A7-75, from
the ceiling, as
part of the
permanent exhibition.