VH-UQT de Havilland D.H.60M Moth
(c/n 1477)
VH-UQT was ex G-AAUS and was originally owned by C.J. Robertson of
Sandringham, Vic.
It was sold to Sir Charles Kingsford
Smith in November 1933, and re-registered to Kingsford
Smith Air
Service (dba Eastern Air Transport Ltd).in 1935 Although
extensively damaged by
fire
after a crash at Mascot in February 1936, it was restored after a three
year rebuild. Another
crash at Botany Bay in January 1940 did not stop it from being
impressed into RAAF service in
August of that year whereupon it became A7-119.