VH-UMG towards the end of its career when it had the light-coloured fuselage it had when it crashed at Mascot (Sydney International) airport on November 23, 1936. The background appears to coastal with a high headland running down to the sea and a heavy swell rolling in. -UMG was being used for joyflights when it crashed and the location might not be an airfield at all but a flat area near a beach.

Printed from a glass plate neg. VH-UMG approaching the then Mascot aerodrome from the north, the background dominated by the chimneys of the many brickworks in the St Peters area. On the horizon can be discerned the arch of the newly finished Sydney Harbour Bridge, a view long since lost behind high-rise apartments and office towers

VH-UMG over the beach at St Kilda. The aircraft crashed in November 21, 1936, at Mascot airport, now Sydney Kingsford Smith International. Famed pilot Charles Kingsford Smith owned VH-UMG at the time of the photo.