Aircraft Photo of VH-UHZ | Avro 594A Avian IIIA | AirHistory.net #736150
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:VH-UHZ
Aircraft Original Type:Avro 594/616 Avian
Aircraft Generic Type:Avro 594/616 Avian
Aircraft Version:Avro 594A Avian IIIA
C/n (msn):RN/CN/144
Location
City / Airport:BundabergMap
Region / Country:Queensland, Australia
Airport Codes:ICAO: YBUD   IATA: BDB   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:1939
Photo from:Andy Anderson Collection
Photo ID: 736150
Photo Comment

Imported into Australia as G-AUHZ in September of 1928 for Aircrafts Pty Ltd. Crashed a fortnight after it was registered. The wreckage was sold to Messrs. N. D. Hagerty and A.H. Williams and rebuilt by QANTAS in Longreach, QLD. A new C of A was issued in 1933. In May 1939 it passed to M.M.Castle of Bundaberg, Qld, where this photo was taken. However, he sold it September of that year to an owner in Sydney. Written off on 3 February 1941 when it caught fire in the air and forced landed at Byrock, NSW. Info from the Ed Coates Collection. Photo from the Peterson Family Collection, Bundaberg

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