Aircraft Photo of No Reg | Farman MF-9 | AirHistory.net #135113
Location
City / Seaplane Base:Sydney - Rose Bay SeaplaneMap
Region / Country:New South Wales, Australia
Airport Codes:ICAO: YRAY   IATA: RSE   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:19 May 1914
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID: 135113
Photo Comment

Imported into Australia by merchant Lebbeus Horden. The pilot is Maurice Guillaux who would two months later fly the first air mail from Melbourne to Sydney in a Bleriot. In September 1914, Horden donated the Farman to the Australian Government. It was given the serial CFS7 (Central Flying School) and later converted to a landplane. Its existence was last recorded in June 1917. In 1914 there was no water airport at Rose Bay. It would be the 1930s before Qantas chose the sheltered bay as the terminus for its flying boat services.

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