VH-UUT Short S.16 Scion
(c/n S.789)
Two images of the Short Scion VH-UUT of Adelaide
Airways. Above, via the State Library of
South Australia
collection taken at Parafield in 1935 when the aircraft was new and
below, in the
hangar at Parafield in a
photo from the Geoff Goodall collection. First registered
on 24
October
1935 to the Adelaide
Steamship Co. It had a short
commercial life, overturning on a forced
land-
ing at Meadows, SA
on 22 January 1936. The airframe was
shipped back to the
manufacturers
in Rochester, England
where it was rebuilt as
G-AEOY.