ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 163131
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| Date: | Thursday 18 September 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60 Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Transport Ltd |
| Registration: | VH-UAH |
| MSN: | 245 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sea off Ettalong Beach, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Mascot, Sydney, NSW |
| Ettalong Beach, NSW |
C/no. 245: DH.60 [Cirrus I] to Controller of Civil Aviation, Australia with C of A 979 issued 11.5.26. Registered as G-AUAH [C of R 137] 12.8.26 to Civil Aviation Branch, Dept of Defence, and issued 14.8.26 to Australian Aero Club (NSW Section), Mascot. Crashed at Maroubra Junction, NSW 22.3.30; registration cancelled 24.3.30. Rebuilt with Gipsy I engine and re-registered as VH-UAH 20.9.30 to same owner. Crashed Mascot 18.3.31; withdrawn from use and registration cancelled 19.9.31.
Rebuilt by Tugan Aircraft Ltd with parts from VH-UAE (c/no. 192) and registration restored 13.2.34 to Kingsford-Smith Air Service Ltd, Mascot; operated by Eastern Air Transport Ltd. Crashed at Boston Park, near Mascot, NSW 23.10.34; registration cancelled 12.2.35. Repaired/rebuilt and registration restored 4.3.35 to same owner.
Crashed on landing Mascot, NSW 19.3.37; repaired again. Converted to floatplane from May to September 1939 (using floats taken from VH-UJI c/no. 983). Crashed into sea off Ettalong Beach, NSW 18.9.41 (fifth time that this aircraft crashed). Registration cancelled 13.11.41.
Wreck salvaged and sold to Victor Burgess, Buccaneer Bay, Sydney 20.7.42; registered to him 30.9.42 for intended rebuild with parts from VH-UAK (c/no. 242). Rebuild not progressed/abandoned and registration VH-AUH formally cancelled 30.1.46 at post-war census.
Ettalong Beach is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia south of Woy Woy on Brisbane Water at the point where it meets Broken Bay, about 86 km north of Sydney.
Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-AU.html
2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/84-register-australia
3. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/G-AUAH.html
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60-moth-ettalong-beach
5. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf
6. [photo of VH-UAH on floats c.1939]: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/388618/VH-UAH
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettalong_Beach
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2014 16:59 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 15-Aug-2017 19:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Sep-2023 16:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [[Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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