Preserved at Bundaberg airport in the markings of local aviator Bert Hinkler's CF-APK. Hinkler was killed in this aircraft in Italy in 1933. Photo from: State Library of Victoria

Fitted with the extra wing strut demanded by Australian authorities. Reregistered VH-ABU in October 1948. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

VH-ABU behind the house on Brighton Road where it was stored. The house was demolished in 1969. ABU's owners assumed it destroyed but it had been towed away. It then changed hands several times always with a view to restoration and at one stage its original registration VH-UPA was reserved. Now displayed at the Hinkler museum in Bundaberg, Queensland, painted as CF-APK in which Bert Hinkler was killed in Italy in 1933.

Recently installed in the Hinkler Hall of Aviation, this aircraft is painted to represent the aircraft Bert Hinkler used to make the first solo crossing of the South Atlantic in 1931. Sadly, Hinkler died in the real 'Karohi' when he crashed at Mt Pratomango, Italy, on 7 January 1933 whilst attempting a solo record flight to Australia. The exhibited aircraft was registered new as VH-UPA to the then tiny Q.A.N.T.A.S. on 9 September 1930. After changing hands several times, it became VH-ABU in 1948.