'Sir Charles Kingsford Smith prepares at Croydon for last long-distance flight.' Smith and Tommy Pethybridge departed for Australia on 6 November but the plane with the two men disappeared between Allahabad and Singapore. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Owned by famed aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, VH-USB left Australia by air in October 1934 for the US. In September 1935 it was shipped on to the UK where it became G-ADUS for an attempt on the UK-Australia record. It crashed into the Gulf of Martaban, Myanmar, on November 8, 1935. An undercarriage leg washed up on Aye island but otherwise no traces of the -USB, Smithy and copilot Tommy Pethybridge were ever found.

A 35mm Slide scanned with a Epson Perfection V700 Flatbed scanner. Became VH-USR in 1990. Former Italian AF MM53833.

Former Italian AF MM53833. Paint to represent a Lockheed Altair VH-USB for the TV series. N1363R later became VH-USR.

N1363R painted to resemble the Lockheed Altair VH-USB Lady Southern Cross in which famed pilot Charles Kingsford Smith vanished during a UK-Australian record attempt in 1935. It was for a miniseries called A Thousand Skies and during filming N1363R also carried the registration VH-USB. In 1990 it joined the Australian register as VH-USR.