VH-GSW was among a shipment of scrap metal from New Guinea to Adelaide to be melted down. Japanese WW2 aircraft were among the load.

Of Gibbes' three Ju52/3ms, VH-BUW was the only one with military service. It had been the personal aircraft of Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. It was flown to Sweden in April 1945 without the general. BUW arrived in Papua New Guinea on February 9, 1952. Crashed at Wau on March 21. With great difficulty it was transported by road back to Goroka and rebuilt. The work was completed in January 1959 with the new registration VH-GSW. Retired in 1960 and scrapped.

Written off after ground looping at Baiyer River, Papua New Guinea on October 17, 1959

Badly damaged in a ground-loop at Baiyer River on October 17, 1959

VH-BUU after its original BMW radials were replaced by Pratt and Whitney engines by Marshall Airways in Sydney..

Damaged in a ground-loop at Baiyer River airstrip, Papua New Guinea, on October 17, 1959. Stripped of useful parts and abandoned. VH-BUU was a pre-war civil aircraft built for Lufthansa but delivered to Aero O/Y in Finland as OH-LAM. Sold in Sweden as SE-BUE in 1951 and to Gibbes in 1955. The BMW radials were replaced by Pratt and Whitney Wasps by Marshall Airways at Bankstown, Sydney, in 1956.

Photo from the Ben Dannecker Collection

When Gibbes Sepik Airways bought this aircraft it was VH-BHG. Gibbes Sepik was taken over by Mandated Airlines in 1958 and in 1959, -BHG was reregistered VH-GSB. The Gibbes Sepik titles were eventually replaced by Mandated Airlines titles. Ansett bought Mandated to form Ansett-MAL in 1960. -GSB was sold in 1962 to the founder of Gibbes Sepik, World War II fighter ace Bobby Gibbes. He reregistered it VH-RHG. Photo from the Ben Dannecker Collection.