Built as a DH.87A but fitted with the square-tipped wings of the DH.87B when assembled at Archerfield. Crashed at Hughenden, Queensland, on December 31, 1955 when it hit a fence during a go-around. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Registered in March 1928 as G-AUGY as a Travel Air 2000 with a Curtiss OX-5 engine. VH-UGY from April 1930. Rebuilt with a Wright Whirlwind engine in 1934 and redesignated a Travel Air 4000. Its certificate of airworthiness lapsed in 1944. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

When VH-USC arrived at Darwin in October 1934 work was proceeding at full speed to finish the new Qantas hangar in time for the Mildenhall-Melbourne air race later that month. VH-USC was sold to MMA in July 1938, then went to the RAAF in 1940 as A31-5. It returned to the register and Qantas in March 1942. Crashed Darwin October 9, 1944. Parap airport closed in 1946 when civil operations were transferred to the RAAF base. Hangar now a car museum in MacDonald Street. The runway became Ross Smith Avenue. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales

The prototype Drover. Seen here after the installation of an ADF housing over the cockpit similar to that fitted to Doves. -DHA was lost when it ditched 100 miles from Wewak, Papua New Guinea after a propeller sheared off. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

G-AGKT was provided by BOAC to Qantas to operate from Australia to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) replacing Catalinas. The long-haul route avoided Japanese airspace and opened a quicker route to the UK than via the Pacific and the US. -AGKT, stripped of paint, continued with Qantas after the war and was the first Qantas aircraft to carry the kangaroo logo. Withdrawn from use in 1947, it was scrapped at Sydney airport without entering the Australian register. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales

Used for aerial dingo (wild dog) baiting. VH-BAH came to TAA from Qantas when TAA took over Qantas routes in Queensland as it shifted its role to national flag carrier. -BAH was sold to the Royal Newcastle Aero Club in 1955. On July 1, 1956 while engaged in flood relief work it crashed at Brewarrina, New South Wales, and was consumed by fire. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Wapitis had only just been delivered to the RAAF when A5-4 made an appearance at an air pageant at Essendon. It flew with the air force for 10 years until crashing at Mount Buninyong, Victoria on December 12, 1939. The RAAF received 44 Wapitis but one was damaged in a wharf accident and never entered service. Photo from: National Library of Australia

VH-UNO crashed near Manly, a Sydney seaside suburb, on July 5, 1930 soon after departing Sydney (Mascot) Airport . Passenger Arthur Lumb was killed and pilot Goya Henry severely injured. The accident happened in bad weather. Photo from: Hood Collection/State Library of New South Wales

Impressed by the RAAF as A17-674 in July 1940. Did not return to civil use. In 1991 another Tiger Moth was registered VH-UZV (ex VH-AZC). Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Shipped to Australia and assembled at Archerfield, G-ACGJ became VH-UAX with Aircrafts Pty Ltd (APL). UAX was plagued with engine problems largely blamed on poor maintenance . It was damaged in a forced landing near Archerfield on May 3, 1942. Work on rebuilding engine received close supervision by authorities. After an inspector reported worn parts were being used, the engine was removed from the airport to a city workshop. That was the end of the story and UAX was cancelled from the register in 1947 as withdrawn from use. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Like all 391 Oxfords received by the RAAF, V3354 was operated with its RAF serial. It became the subject of an official photo air-to-air photo shoot soon after arrival. By 1942, it and all other RAAF aircraft in the Pacific had the red centres of their roundels painted out to avoid confusion with Japanese aircraft. V3354 was destroyed by fire after landing at Point Cook on June 12, 1944. Photo from: National Library of Australia

A77-959 was destroyed in a midair collision with Meteor A77-587 near Kimpo, South Korea, during the Korean War. The pilot of -959 was killed. The other pilot ejected. However his abandoned aircraft killed a child on the ground. Photo from: State Library of Victoria

VH-UVQ on the Cooks River mudflats next to the airport. A few days later it was flown to Brisbane where it operated for a short while from the Brisbane River. By the end of 1939 it was stored, vandalised and caught up in the liquidation of Aerial Transport and Training. -UVQ never flew again and was cancelled from the register in 1946. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

VH-UJN soon after its registration was changed from the superseded G-AUJN. At the time it was owned by Moxon Motors, an agent for de Havilland aircraft and Graham-Paige cars, hence the aircraft's name. -UJN passed through many hands until it was impressed by the RAAF as A7-116 in August 1940. It did not return to the register. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Security restrictions imposed by Mussolini's regime meant passengers' cameras had to be sealed in a bag while Imperial Airways flights were refuelling at Brindisi. So photos of Brindisi as a Imperial AW port are rare. From contemporary reports passengers were taken ashore by boat because there was no flying boat dock. G-ABFA was the first of three Kents and was lost when it sank at Mirabella Bay, Crete on August 22, 1936. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales

TG617 struck off charge in 1959. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Beaches were handy areas of flat firm ground at a time when aerodromes were scarce. Initially G-EAIY (registered August, 1919) and shipped to Australia for assembly by Australian Aircraft and Engineering Co. It became G-AUBE in June 1921 and struck off in June 1923. Returned as G-AUEO in October 1928 with a Sunbeam Dyak engine in place of the original Clerget. Crashed in February 1929 and struck off the register a year later. Repaired and flew again in January 1932 (crashed soon after) but not formally registered after March 1930. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Fokker's last fighter, the tandem-engined D.XXIII (D.23). The sole prototype was powered by two 523-hp Walter Sagittas with which it was capable of about 520 km/h (323 mph). Offered with similar engines it may have had some appeal to Fokker's minor country customers. Apparently the installation of two RR Merlins or Daimlers was also planned, with which it might have been pretty fast but also very expensive. The pusher engine was asking for cooling problems which did occur, and a hazard for the pilot when bailing out. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

The prototype of the Fokker G.I, a two-seat fighter powered by Hispano-Suiza 14 engines and first flown from Eindhoven - Welschap on 16 March 1937. At the insistence of the Dutch army air force the design was completely reworked as a three-seat multirole aircraft. This was rather counter-productive since the resulting G.I/Mercury served as a two-seat fighter. A batch of the smaller variant with R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior engines was ordered by the Spanish Republicans, but eventually taken over by the Dutch government. The G.I/Wasp aircraft were not yet operational on 10 May 1940 and saw little action during the German invasion of Holland. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

MAL purchased this C-47 from the Indian Government which had received it from the peacetime disposal of aircraft used by the South-East Asia Command in World War II. Registered in March 1948. Reregistered as VH-MAC in August 1951. Sold in Taiwan as B-251 in 1967. Photo from: State Library of Queensland