Date:	Sunday 8 August 1937
Time:	afternoon
Type:	de Havilland DH.60G Moth
Owner/operator:	Royal Queensland Aero Club
Registration:	VH-UIE
MSN:	820
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Rocklea Show Grounds, Ipswich Road, Rocklea, Queensland -   Australia
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Demo/Airshow/Display
Departure airport:	Archerfield Airport, Brisbane, Queensland (YBAF)
Destination airport:	Archerfield Airport, Brisbane, Queensland (YBAF)

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) when struck by DH.60G VH-UIQ during an air race over Rocklea, Brisbane; tail cut off and crashed from 200-300 feet, into the Rocklea Show Grounds 8.8.37; aircraft caught fire on impact, and pilot Duncan Blair Ferguson killed. (VH-UIQ - the other aircraft involved - landed safely albeit damaged).

1. Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld.) Monday 9 August 1937 Page 7 PILOT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH AT ROCKLEA: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/57632669
2. The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.) Monday 9 August 1937 Page 9 Pilot Killed in Crash During Air Race: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/184569499
3. The Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld.) Monday 9 August 1937 Page 3 AERO CLUB MEMBER KILLED IN CRASH AT ROCKLEA: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199040630
4. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
5. As G-AUIE; https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-australian-register/g-au?highlight=WyJnLWF1aWUiXQ==
6. As VH-UIE: https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-australian-register/vh-ua-um?highlight=WyJnLWF1aWciXQ==
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U.html
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p008.html
9. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocklea,_Queensland#History

c/no.820 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I engine#38, amended to #31] to DeHavilland Australia with C of A 1643 issued 12.10.28. Registered as G-AUIE [C of R 248] 22.1.29 to W.W. Pike, Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered as VH-UIE later. in 1929. Re-registered 13.9.33 to N W C Croucher, Townsville, Queensland; (based at Ayr, Queensland). Re-registered 29.10.34 to Queensland Aero Club, Archerfield, Brisbane, Qld. Re-registered 29.11.35 to Royal Queensland Aero Club, Archerfield. Crashed near Bundamba Racecourse 16.5.37; passenger R O’Loan killed; repaired and returned to servbice

Registration VH-UIE cancelled with effect from the same day (8.8.37)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Mar-2024 07:24	Dr. John Smith	Added
14-Mar-2024 07:25	ASN	Updated [Narrative]