The library says the photo is at Meekatharra but the aircraft was also named Meekatharra. Was this confusion? VH-UTW did fly to Meekatharra and there is nothing about the background that would exclude Meekatharra - or just about any other port the airline served. Meekatharra has been used as the location until proven otherwise. VH-UTW was destroyed in a Japanese air attack at Broome on March 3, 1942. Photo from: State Library of New South Wales

Australian aviator P.H. Moody's Reliant, with his name in small print on the rudder. Moody sold his aircraft in January 1937, and it was eventually destroyed in a Japanese air raid on Broome, Western Australia, on March 20, 1942. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

VH-UTW is seen after after its repairs following an accident on an oil rig in Bass Strait on March 22, 1968. The accident received huge publicity. The tail rotor failed on landing and the main rotor tore into visiting journalists waiting on the helipad. Three people died and others lost limbs. -UTW was sold in Indonesia as PK-OBA in June 1975