3 results found
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Alternate Registration: | G-AUKA |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Collection: | Drage Airworld |
Photo Date: | 29 March 1986 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Photo ID: | 14197Submit Correction |
View count: | 949 |
VH-UHU masquerading as G-AUKA, nicknamed "Kookaburra". The story of G-AUKA is one of the most famous in Australian aviation history. Two men set off in G-AUKA in 1929 to search for the missing Fokker "Southern Cross" and disappeared themselves. By the time they were found in the desert, both men had died of dehydration. Their bodies were recovered but when they went back for the Widgeon, it had been destroyed by a grassfire. A new search for the Kookaburra in 1978 resulted in its metal remains being recovered . They are now displayed in a diorama at the Central Australian Air Museum in Alice Springs. As for the Southern Cross, it and its crew were found safe.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Alternate Registration: | G-AUKA |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 29 March 1986 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Alternate Registration: | G-AUKA |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Collection: | Drage Airworld |
Photo Date: | 29 March 1986 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Photo ID: | 14197Submit Correction |
View count: | 949 |
VH-UHU masquerading as G-AUKA, nicknamed "Kookaburra". The story of G-AUKA is one of the most famous in Australian aviation history. Two men set off in G-AUKA in 1929 to search for the missing Fokker "Southern Cross" and disappeared themselves. By the time they were found in the desert, both men had died of dehydration. Their bodies were recovered but when they went back for the Widgeon, it had been destroyed by a grassfire. A new search for the Kookaburra in 1978 resulted in its metal remains being recovered . They are now displayed in a diorama at the Central Australian Air Museum in Alice Springs. As for the Southern Cross, it and its crew were found safe.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Alternate Registration: | G-AUKA |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 29 March 1986 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Berwick - Casey Field (YBER) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 9 February 1975 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Photo ID: | 12839Submit Correction |
View count: | 371 |
1928-built at Yeovil as G-EBUB. Sold to Australia as G-AUHU and later VH-UHU. One of two surviving examples of this type.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Berwick - Casey Field (YBER) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 9 February 1975 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Berwick - Casey Field (YBER) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 9 February 1975 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Photo ID: | 12839Submit Correction |
View count: | 371 |
1928-built at Yeovil as G-EBUB. Sold to Australia as G-AUHU and later VH-UHU. One of two surviving examples of this type.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Berwick - Casey Field (YBER) (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | 9 February 1975 |
Photo by: | David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact |
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wodonga - Drage's (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | January 1976 |
Photo by: | David CarterContact |
Photo ID: | 2830Submit Correction |
View count: | 382 |
Drage's was a private airstrip owned by Joe Drage, the founder of the Airworld museum. Now a housing estate, the airstrip was a popular venue in the 1970s for antique aircraft rallies.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wodonga - Drage's (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | January 1976 |
Photo by: | David CarterContact |
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Original Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Westland Widgeon III |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wodonga - Drage's (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | January 1976 |
Photo by: | David CarterContact |
Photo ID: | 2830Submit Correction |
View count: | 382 |
Drage's was a private airstrip owned by Joe Drage, the founder of the Airworld museum. Now a housing estate, the airstrip was a popular venue in the 1970s for antique aircraft rallies.
Registration / Serial: | VH-UHU |
Aircraft Version: | Westland Widgeon III |
C/n (msn): | WA.1695 |
City / Airport: | Wodonga - Drage's (closed)Map |
Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
Photo Date: | January 1976 |
Photo by: | David CarterContact |