ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 27123
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| Date: | Friday 23 May 1952 |
| Time: | 17:30 LT |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Butler Air Transport (Pty) Ltd |
| Registration: | VH-UUO |
| MSN: | 6259 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Warrumbungle Mountain Range, 11 miles S of Tooraweenah, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Baradine, NSW, Australia |
| Tooraweenah, Australia | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
C/no.6259: Registered ZK-ACO 8.10.34 to NZ Melbourne Centenary Air Race Committee, Mangere; named "Tainui" (and officially handed over 3.10.34). UK C of A 4535 issued 9.10.34. Race No.60, it was flown by Squadron Leader J.D. (Jim) Hewett and Cyril E. Kay, departing Mildenhall, Suffolk, 20.10.34, and arriving at Melbourne 3.11.34 (after suffering tail damage at Cloncurry 28.10.34). It finished fifth in speed race with an elapsed time of 330 hr 51 min and flying time of 106 hr 51 min.
Flown to Palmerston North, New Zealand 14.11.34 and then shipped back for sale to Sydney, Australia on SS "Wanganella"; arriving 27.5.35. Erected and test flown Essendon 5.6.35. Registered 10.6.35 to The Melbourne Centenary Air Race Committee. Registered in Australia as VH-UUO [C of R 528] 10.6.35 to West Australian Airways Ltd, Perth. Re-registered 1.7.36 to Adelaide Airways Ltd, Adelaide (and which, on same day, became Australian National Airways). Badly damaged on landing at Mount Gambier, South Australia 30.9.36; trucked to Parafield and rebuilt by March 1937.
Registered 25.11.36 to Australian National Airways (Pty) Ltd, Essendon [but based at Parafield]; named "Malonga". Re-registered 8.8.39 to Guinea Airways Ltd, Adelaide; named "Lae". Registration cancelled 8.7.40.
Impressed into RAAF service as A33-1, 2.7.40; to 1 EFTS Parafield 2.7.40. To 1 AOS Cootamundra 26.8.40. To DCA 15.4.42. Registration restored as VH-UUO 21.4.42 to Airlines of Australia Ltd, Sydney. Re-registered 26.6.43 to Australian National Airways Pty Ltd, Melbourne; named "Yuptana". Leased to Queensland Airlines Ltd in 1949-50. Re-registered 7.2.50 to Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, Mascot.
Written off 23.5.52: Crashed into Warrumbungle Mountain Range near Tooraweenah NSW. Crashed in heavily timbered country 11 miles south of Tooraweenah at 5.30pm during a flight from Barradine, NSW, to Tooraweenah in rain and poor weather. Destroyed by fire, Captain Keith Brown and four passengers were injured. Registration cancelled 8.9.52 as "destroyed"
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/VH-UUO.html
3. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a33.htm
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-near-tooraweenah
5. http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/albums.php?gRedir=1 (as RAAF A33-1)
6. http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/dh89/dh89.htm
7. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+57200/211
8. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+57200/215
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Dec-2011 14:46 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 12-Dec-2011 14:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2014 02:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Feb-2019 00:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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