VH-UXI "Moresby"
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Type: L-10A Electra
Msn: 1105
Previous Identities:
Subsequent Identities:
History:
10JUN37
Export
CofA No E-2822 issued.
23JUN37
Delivered
to Guinea Airways.
31JUL37
Arrived
at Adelaide as deck cargo on the S.S. "Mirrabooka" which had called at Napier
N.Z. en route.
12AUG37
Registration
application from Guinea Airways Ltd. CofR No 656 and CofA No 613 issued
as VH-UXI and test flown on the same day.
16AUG37
Entered
service on Guinea Airways' Adelaide to Darwin route named "Moresby".
18DEC39
Departed
Darwin for Adelaide at 0535. Twenty miles out of Darwin the starboard engine
failed and the aircraft turned back. With the starboard engine on fire and
unable to maintain height, the aircraft was force landed in the dark in
trees adjacent to the railway line about a mile south of Darwin. Captain
Nobby Buckley and First Officer U.G. Edgerton evacuated the ten Army passengers
and their baggage before the aeroplane was destroyed by fire.
18DEC39
Struck
off the Register.