Most active Australian Moths were impressed into the RAAF at the start of World War II but not VH-UIF. It may have been in poor condition because its CoA lapsed in 1941 and it was kept in storage. Plans to rebuild VH-UIF postwar came to nothing and it cancelled from the register in 1947. Photo from: State Library of New South Wales

Erroneously called the Curtiss-Ireland Meteor on account of its predecessor, the Comet, using Curtiss Oriole fuselages. Power is a Curtiss OX-5 V8. VH-UFQ was the only Meteor to be registered in Australia. It crashed at Sydney airport, then called Mascot aerodrome, on January 17, 1931. Photo from: State Library of New South Wales