Date:	Wednesday 21 January 1942
Time:
Type:	Avro 642 Eighteen
Owner/operator:	Mandated Airines Ltd. - MAL
Registration:	VH-UXD
MSN:	642
Year of manufacture:	1934
Engine model:	Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IVD
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	UI
Location:	Salamaua -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	-
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
An Avro 642 Eighteen, VH-UXD, was destroyed on the ground at Salamaua, Papua New Guinea, during a strafing attack by Japanese aircraft during the first Japanese attack against New Guinea.

Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea / Peter J. Dean

photo (c) John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas, QLD; ; (publicdomain)

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