Recorded as shipped from Saunders Roe at Cowes in mid-1943 and prepared by Qantas at the Rose Bay, NSW seaplane base. In 1947 HD874 was issued to the Australian Antarctic Flight (hence the yellow colours in which it is now displayed) but it was wrecked in a storm on Heard Island in December. The damaged hull was recovered in 1980 for the restoration completed in 2002. There is some doubt about identity as Saunders Roe-bulit aircraft had wooden fuselages but this one is metal; it is possible that the hull of Seagull A2-20 held in store from 1946 was substituted before the Antarctic mission.