VH-UPA de Havilland D.H.
80A Puss Moth (c/n
2022)
A badly cropped photograph. However, I know
how difficult it was at times, at Bankstown where
this
shot was taken, to get
far enough away from a subject to get it all in . Originally registered
to
Qantas at Brisbane in 1930, it had a series of
owners in the 1930s and 40s and was re-registered
VH-ABU
in 1948. The image below was taken from a placard at the
Hinkler House Memorial
Museum (in Bundaberg) where this aircraft is preserved in memory of
that great aviator. It illustrates
the machine as originally flown in
Qantas markings. Finally, the shot at the foot of the page was
taken
from a Qantas archives snapshot showing the aircraft in the early 1930s
when it was operated by the
airline.
.