VH-UYE Tugan LJW7
Gannet
(c/n TA.57)
The above shot is from the Neil Follett collection (via
Geoff Goodall). The first five Gannetts were
built at Mascot, although
by 1937 the company had been absorbed by Commonwealth Aircraft and
the last three (c/ns TA.57 - TA.59) were built at Fishermans' Bend in
Melbourne. At one stage I
thought that possibly
these last three had all gone straight to the RAAF and, as such, were
never paint-
ed up with their
civil regos. Recent (2012) images from
the Geoff Goodall collection have clearly
indicated that this was not
so, as evidenced by the above shot. . -UYE became A14-3 in 1938 and
is
seen as such in my photo below. It was reduced to produce in
February
1946.