VH-UBC
Maurice Farman Longhorn (c/n 1505)
Taken at an air show
at Moorabbin
in 1955. This is actually a complete rebuild, since
the original VH-UBC crashed in
1926 and was struck off the register in that year. This
aircraft
was rebuilt from the original airframe. Unfortunately it, too
crashed on its first
post-restoration
flight in 1954. It was subsequently rebuilt and flown
again. Barrie
Colledge's shot below shows it a few days prior to its successful
flight following the
second
rebuild in 1956. It was subsequently sold to the
Tallmantz Aviation Aircraft
Collection in
the USA, reportedly registered as N96452. Following a couple of
other
owners in the US it
wound up with the
Canadian Aviation Museum in
Ottawa, Canada,
although is
not currently on display there.