Aircraft Photo of G-EBTU | Avro 594 Avian III | AirHistory.net #169943
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:G-EBTU
Aircraft Original Type:Avro 594/616 Avian
Aircraft Generic Type:Avro 594/616 Avian
Aircraft Version:Avro 594 Avian III
C/n (msn):B3/AV/125
Aircraft Name:Red Rose
Location
Location:Not known
Region / Country:Queensland, Australia
 
Photo Date:March 1928
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 169943
Photo Comment

The plane the centre of a 1920s scandal. Flown by Capt Lancaster from the UK to Australia, the adventurous pilot was accompanied by Mrs Miller, a married woman. The Avian was added to the Australian register as G-AUTU and later VH-UTU. Lancaster and Miller moved to the US where he was charged with the murder of another Mrs Miller's lovers. Acquitted, Lancaster returned to the UK and record flight attempts, dying of thirst in 1933 when he force-landed in the Sahara. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

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