Operated by West Australian Airways. Became VH-UJP at the start of 1931. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Sold in Australia as G-AUPP. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Written off after a forced landing at Redcliffe in Perth on October 11, 1933. Photo likely towards the beginning of the date range. The word AIRWAYS was not on the nose when it crashed. The unreliability of the engines fitted had seen WAA fit different versions of the Jupiter and different propellers, often on one side only. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Jimmy Woods set out in VH-UPD hoping to break Jim Mollison's record from Australia to the UK of six days. Woods took six weeks to get there due to bad luck and bad weather. UPD was impressed into the RAAF as A7-104 in July 1940 and there its story ended. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Impressed into the RAAF as A41-1 in July 1940. Returned to the civil register in 1946 and flew with the Methodist Inland Mission in Queensland. Reregistered VH-GAV in October 1948. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Impressed into the RAAF in July 1940 as A34-6. After the war it was used in an aeromedical role until it crashed at Cheviot Hills on October 20, 1953. Photo from: State Library of Western Australia

Used on the Perth-Adelaide route. Reregistered VH-FDB in 1948 when then owner the Royal Flying Doctor Service brought its fleet into the VH-FD* registration block. Photo from: State Library of New South Wales

VH-UVK set out for Australia as G-ABGK, Race No. 36, in the 1934 Mildenhall-Melbourne air race. Its race was over when its undercarriage collapsed on landing at Aleppo in Syria. The damaged aircraft was salvaged and shipped to Australia where it was repaired by Horrie Miller, of MacRobertson Miller Airlines fame. He operated -UVK until November 1941 when the RAAF impressed it as A42-1. The Vega survived the war but was scrapped at the orders of the Department of Civil Aviation. Photo from: National Library of Australia