Date:	Monday 28 February 1955
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.60G Moth
Owner/operator:	Allan George “Sonny” Tulloh
Registration:	VH-ULC
MSN:	898
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Cobar Airport, 3 miles SW of Cobar, NSW -   Australia
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	-
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
Destroyed in storm (gales and floods) at Cobar Airport, 3 miles SW of Cobar, NSW 28.2.55. Large areas of NSW were damaged by gales and floods between 25 and 28.2.55.

1. Fatal Plane crash 12.3.38: The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer (NSW) Tuesday 15 March 1938 Page 2 Young Man Killed in 'Plane Crash Near Kempsey: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167887337
2. Fatal Plane crash 12.3.38: Cairns Post (Cairn Qld.) Monday 14 March 1938 Page 7 PLANE CRASH. PASSENGER KILLED: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41846937
3. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
4. As G-AULC: https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-australian-register/g-au?highlight=WyJnLWF1bGMiXQ==
5. As VH-ALC: https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-australian-register/vh-ua-um?highlight=WyJnLWF1bGMiXQ==
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U.html
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p008.html
8. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186559024/allan_george-tulloh
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobar_Airport

c/no. 898 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I engine#118, amended to #140] to DeHavilland Australia without C of A. Registered as G-AULC [C of R 267] 20.2.29 to Louis Coen Wireless Pty Ltd, Melbourne; (note contrived/'fixed' registration!). Operated as the Astor radio plane (a brand promoted by Louis Coen Wireless) and flown by Capt. Roberts on advertising tour in west Australia in July 1929. Re-registered VH-ULC later in 1929. Registered 2.2.31 to F L Roberts, Essendon. Re-registered 19.12.33 to C White, Rupanyup, Victoria. Registration cancelled 31.1.35 as "lapsed"

Registration restored 7.11.36 to L S Dumaresq, Longford, Tasmania. Re-registered 20.4.37 to S Parisotto, West Kempsey, NSW. Re-registered 1.2.38 to Northern New South Wales Aero Club, Grafton, NSW.

Crashed Bellimbopinni, about seven miles from Kempsey, NSW 12.3.38; passenger Kevin Brest killed; pilot Harry Franks injured (see links #1 & #2). Wreck sold 10.38 to Airwork Co, Archerfield, Brisbane, Qld. Registration VH-ULC cancelled 10.11.38. Sold 1.39 [for rebuild] and re-registered 2.11.39 to Queensland Air University Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered 2.1.43 to H F Bremerman, Wooloowin, Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered 2.11.46 to S J Porter, Tingalpa, Qld.

Re-registered 21.9.50 to EA Samuels, Brisbane. Re-registered 14.2.51 to H K Morris, t/a Morris Air Service, Bankstown. Re-registered 21.12.51 to Allan George “Sonny” Tulloh, Cobar, NSW.
Registration VH-ULC cancelled 16.3.55. Remains stored Cobar, NSW for approx. 20 years. Parts to Bunn Bros, Albury, NSW for rebuild in the late 1970s [also reported as parts to J Star, Walbundrie, NSW].

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Mar-2024 10:25	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Mar-2024 10:26	ASN	Updated [Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]