VH-UPR Desoutter Mk II
(c/n D.35)
Plenty of shots of this Desoutter exist,
imported in December of 1930 for Hart Aircraft Services
Pty
Ltd of
Essendon. However, except for the image below, they all show the
aircraft with a white
rego on a blue fuselage. Photo No 2, from the CAHS
archives (via Phil Vabre) shows it with the
reverse of that scheme, (possibly as it arrived at
Hart Aircraft?). Photo # 3 is also from Phil.
Photo # 4,
with appropriate caption is
from Keith Webb and shows the result of a crash of -UPR
on Deal
Island following a
take-off from Sale, Victoria
on 3 July 1933. Keith advises
that
this
photograph came from Max Huxley, whose father was
the lighthouse
keeper. Anyway the aircraft
was subsequently repaired
and
has been actively flying
more or less ever since.
In 1945 it was sold to F.J. (Jack) Williams of Nhill. Photo No 5
looks like a CofA photo, via
CAHS,
again.
VH-UPR was with the Air
Museum in Moorabbin for a while although
Neil
Follett has provided the
photo at the foot of the page (# 6) of it in a hangar at Lilydale
Victoria in 2005 (Note wing of
B.A.Swallow VH-UUM propped against the wall!).
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