Registration / Serial:VH-UHU
Alternate Registration:G-AUKA
Aircraft Original Type:Westland Widgeon III
Aircraft Generic Type:Westland Widgeon III
Aircraft Version:Westland Widgeon III
C/n (msn):WA.1695
City / Airport:Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Collection:Drage Airworld
Photo Date:29 March 1986
Photo by:David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact
Photo ID:14197Submit Correction
View count: 826
VH-UHU masquerading as G-AUKA, nicknamed "Kookaburra". The story of G-AUKA is one of the most famous in Australian aviation history. Two men set off in G-AUKA in 1929 to search for the missing Fokker "Southern Cross" and disappeared themselves. By the time they were found in the desert, both men had died of dehydration. Their bodies were recovered but when they went back for the Widgeon, it had been destroyed by a grassfire. A new search for the Kookaburra in 1978 resulted in its metal remains being recovered . They are now displayed in a diorama at the Central Australian Air Museum in Alice Springs. As for the Southern Cross, it and its crew were found safe.
Registration / Serial:VH-UHU
Alternate Registration:G-AUKA
Aircraft Version:Westland Widgeon III
C/n (msn):WA.1695
City / Airport:Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:29 March 1986
Photo by:David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact
Registration / Serial:VH-UHU
Alternate Registration:G-AUKA
Aircraft Original Type:Westland Widgeon III
Aircraft Generic Type:Westland Widgeon III
Aircraft Version:Westland Widgeon III
C/n (msn):WA.1695
City / Airport:Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Collection:Drage Airworld
Photo Date:29 March 1986
Photo by:David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact
Photo ID:14197Submit Correction
View count: 826
VH-UHU masquerading as G-AUKA, nicknamed "Kookaburra". The story of G-AUKA is one of the most famous in Australian aviation history. Two men set off in G-AUKA in 1929 to search for the missing Fokker "Southern Cross" and disappeared themselves. By the time they were found in the desert, both men had died of dehydration. Their bodies were recovered but when they went back for the Widgeon, it had been destroyed by a grassfire. A new search for the Kookaburra in 1978 resulted in its metal remains being recovered . They are now displayed in a diorama at the Central Australian Air Museum in Alice Springs. As for the Southern Cross, it and its crew were found safe.
Registration / Serial:VH-UHU
Alternate Registration:G-AUKA
Aircraft Version:Westland Widgeon III
C/n (msn):WA.1695
City / Airport:Wangaratta / Victoria (YWGT / WGT)Map
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
Photo Date:29 March 1986
Photo by:David Tanner (via Daniel Tanner)Contact