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Date: | Tuesday 1 November 1932 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60G Moth |
Owner/operator: | Australian National Airways |
Registration: | VH-ULQ |
MSN: | 976 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Delungra, near Tamworth, NSW -
Australia
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Delunga, NSW |
Destination airport: | Inverell, NSW |
Narrative:Written off (destroyed) when crashed into tree on take-off at Delunga, NSW 1.11.31; aircraft was taking off again after forced landing.
Sources:
1. Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) Monday 2 November 1931 Page 3 AEROPLANE CRASHES:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46628832 2.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf 3.
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-australian-register/vh-ua-um?highlight=WyJ2aC11bHEiXQ== 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U.html 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p009.html 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delungra,_New_South_Wales
History of this aircraft
c/no. 976 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I #169] to DeHavilland Australia with C of A 1761 issued 14.1.29. Registration G-AULQ allocated but not taken up. Registered as VH-ULQ [C of R 311] 13.8.29 to QANTAS Ltd, Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered 15.4.30 to Australian National Airways Ltd, Sydney.
Registration VH-ULQ cancelled 7.4.32 as "withdrawn from use". Delungra is a small town on the Gwydir Highway, 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Inverell and 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Bingara in Inverell Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Mar-2024 10:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
10-Mar-2024 10:59 |
ASN |
Updated [Narrative] |