The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Avro 618 ten aircraft, VH-UNA (received from England 1930) about to land or just taking off, watched by a group of spectators. Painted on the side of the aircraft are the words "Southern Sun. The first Australian Air Mail and Passenger Service. Australian National Airways Ltd." This aircraft crashed on take-off in Malaya 26 November 1931.
MELBOURNE, VIC. C.1931. AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL AIRWAYS AVRO 10 AIRCRAFT "SOUTHERN SUN" TAXIING AT ESSENDON AIRPORT DURING THE SEARCH FOR MISSING SISTER AIRCRAFT "SOUTHERN CLOUD". "SOUTHERN CLOUD" DISAPPE
The first all Australian air mail from Australia to England left Melbourne on 20 November 1931 in the "Southern Sun, piloted by GU Allan. The plane crashed at Alor Star in Kedah. Charles Kingsford Smi
RAAF men are preparing food in front of an Avro 618 Ten monoplane trimotor aircraft, call sign VH-UXX, at Garbutt aerodrome. The aircraft (so-named because it carried two crew and eight passengers) wa
Townsville, Qld. RAAF men preparing food in front of an Avro 618 Ten monoplane trimstor aircraft, call sign VH-UXX at Garbutt aerodrome. The aircraft (so-named becuase it carried two crew and eight pa
AVRO LANCASTER AIRCRAFT MODIFIED BY REMOVING THE ARMAMENT AND FITTING STREAMLINED NOSE AND TAIL CONES AND LIMITED PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION TO BECOME KNOWN AS THE LANCASTRIAN FOR CIVIL USE. THIS PHOTOGR
Probably Townsville, Qld. RAAF mailbags being unloaded at night time from Australian National Airways (ANA) air liner (a Douglas DC-2 or DC-3 Dakota aircraft) at an airfield. This mail has come straig
