ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 301463
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| Date: | Monday 21 April 1947 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Avro 616 Avian IVM |
| Owner/operator: | H.W. & A.G. Murrell |
| Registration: | VH-UQE |
| MSN: | R3/CN/531 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Batlow, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Culcairn, NSW, Australia |
c/no. 531 Avro 616 Sports Avian IVM: C of A 3071 issued 8.6.31 to Australian National Airways. Registered as VH-UQE [C of R 434] 1.8.31 to Harry F ("Jim") Broadbent, Coogee, NSW; named “Dabs”. He set off from Sydney on 31.8.31. After an elapsed time of 7 days 8 hours and 15 minutes - a flying time of 83 hours 35 minutes - he had landed at Brisbane, Mackay, Townsville, Burnette Downs, Darwin, Wyndham, Broome, Port Headland, Carnarvon, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Forrest, Cook, Adelaide, Nhill, Melbourne and Sydney. He had beaten the 1927 record of 11 days set by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. Jimmy Broadbent’s feat was even more creditable as he did it solo.
Damaged in forced landing on bank of River Styx, Queensland. Re-registered 17.5.32 to E.H. Loneragan, Mudgee, NSW. Registration lapsed 23.5.33; registration restored 21.2.34 to same owner. Re-registered 18.1.38 to CA Loneragan, Gulgong, NSW. Sold 11.4.44 and re-registered 12.5.44 to H.W. & A.G. Murrell, Culcairn, NSW.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed near Batlow, NSW 21.4.47. Registration VH-UQE cancelled 6.11.47. Batlow is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, 775 m above sea level.
In 1959, its fuselage and parts were used during a rebuild of Avian IVM VH-UQE and adopted that identity. Later, after an accident, when is sustained damage on 4.10.82 at Gunning, NSW, this Avian was rebuilt and reverted to registration VH-UVX.
In 1985 it was painted as G-EBTU ‘Red Rose’ and used in the television mini-series ‘The Lancaster – Miller Affair’. VH-UQE now resides in the Adelaide Soaring Club hangar at Goolwa, SA (see link #3)
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/avian.pdf
2. https://www.goodall.com.au/photographs/vintage-veteran-70/70svintageandveteran.html
3. https://www.airhistory.net/photo/122830/VH-UQE
4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/maylandshs/26248762310/in/photolist-FZvLxq [photo of VH-UQE at Maylands]
5. https://www.airhistory.net/photo/104639/VH-UQE
6. https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=2208
7. https://aeropedia.com.au/content/avro-616-avian/
8. https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4776724 [8 photos - H.F. (Jim) Broadbent Prepares His Avro Avian IVM VH-UQE "Dabs" At Wyndham During His Record Round Australia Flight, 3 September 1931]
9. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austu/VH-UQE.html
10. http://www.chingchic.com/harry-frank-jim-broadbent.html
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batlow,_New_South_Wales
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Nov-2022 17:43 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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