VH-UXR Hillson
Praga
(c/n HA.22)
Third of the three Pragas
imported by Light Aircraft Pty Ltd of Camden, NSW was
VH-UXR.
The above image
is from the Bob Neate collection, whilst the two below, via Graeme
Parsons,
are courtesy of the
Camden
Library and Historical
Society (top) and the NLA (bottom). The
NLA's lo-res photo at
the foot of the page shows all three Australian-registered Pragas
together
at Camden in 1939. . They are VH-UXR, VH-UVP and
VH-UXQ. In the photo above the
art work on the nose depicts a lion, accompanied by
the name 'Leo Junior'. After a couple of
owners (one in Wagga, one in
Melbourne) -UXR was written off when it
crashed on landing at
Coode Island, Victoria
on 11 September 1943.