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BA891/402, 406, 409 |
| Physical description |
3 negatives : b&w ; 7 x 11 cm. |
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Jimmy Woods collection of photographs; BA891/402, 406, 409
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| Rights advisory |
For personal use only. To publish or display, contact the State Library of Western Australia. |
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloguer. |
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This image has been preserved and made available by the Historical Records Rescue Consortium Project supported by Lotterywest. |
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Aircraft details (courtesy Fred Niven): VH-URW de Havilland DH.84 Dragon II (construction number 6080) One of three DH.84s (the others were VH-URX & VH-URY) ordered by MacRobertson Miller Aviation (M.M.A.), after winning the Government tender for the North-West W.A. service beating out the pioneering airline WA Airways. U.K. Certificate of Airworthiness 4363 was issued 4/7/34. Test-flown at Maylands 29/8/34. Registered VH-URW to MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co. 31/8/34 (Certificate of Registration number 487). Carried 8 passengers. Named 'Pilbara'. Its color-scheme was dark, royal-blue, with silver wings, tail & stripes etc. On 9/12/34, it inaugurated M.M.A.'s Perth-Daly Waters service, to connect with the Australia-England air route (pilot George McCausland). On 8/3/35, it overturned on landing in waterlogged ground near Wyndham, WA, turned over on its back & was damaged, with injury to the pilot, Arthur Affleck, or his single passenger. Affleck then rode on horseback some 80km to Ivanhoe Station, with the mail, to pick-up a relief aircraft. Jimmy Woods rode horseback from Ivanhoe Station, repaired the aircraft, using Bushell’s tea chests as replacement plywood (as seen in these photos), and later flew the aircraft back to Maylands, for full repairs. Its Certificate of Registration lapsed 30/8/36 & it was Struck-Off-Register, but was renewed 21/9/36. In 3/39, it was sold to W.R. Carpenter & Co., Sydney, for use by Mandated Airlines in New Guinea. Registered to W.R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. 22/3/39. It crashed into Little Wau Creek 30/1/40, during a misjudged approach & attempted go-round, while landing at Wau, NG, on a Salamaua-Wau flight (pilot Ron E. Doyle). The pilot and two passengers were killed. The wreckage was sold to Kevin Parer 30/3/40, for use as spares for D.H.84 VH-AEA, of Parer's Air Transport Co. Parts were flown to Salamaua, then by boat to Wewak. Kevin Parer later began to rebuild the aircraft & offered it to the Australian Government early in 1942 for £675. However, before the Government could consider the offer, its remains were destroyed (& Kevin Parer was killed) by enemy action in January 1942. Struck-Off-Register 11/3/42. (Information supplied by D. Eyre June 2008) |
| Summary |
The de Havilland DH84 II crashed at 9 Mile Aerodrome, Wyndham was repaired with wood from tea chests. The plane crashed 3rd March, 1935. Arthur Affleck was the pilot. |
| Subjects |
Aircraft accidents -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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Aeronautics -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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Airplanes -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
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Online image.
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HRRC
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