VH-UZH Percival K.1 Vega Gull
(c/n K.56)
Imported new from England in November of 1937, this
Gull was purchased by George Wyndham
Lewis of
Kalgoorlie for his Goldfields Airways Ltd operation. It was shipped to
Perth, assembled
at Maylands and then
delivered to Kalgoorlie. It flew charter work in support of
the gold mining
industry
as well as medical emergency flights in outback It was
finally sold by Lewis in May of
1960 to a private
owner in Perth. -UZH was written off Yerecoin, WA when
the port under-
carriage
collapsed during landing on 26 February 1961.