ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25464
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| Date: | Wednesday 18 August 1943 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Australian National Airways |
| Registration: | VH-UXT |
| MSN: | 6346 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Wynyard, TAS -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Essendon, Melbourne (MEB/YMEN) |
| Wynyard, Tasmania (BWT/YWYY) |
C of A 5862 issued 2.4.37. Shipped on SS Moreton Bay 4.37; assembled Essendon. Registered VH-UXT [CofR 641] 25.5.37 to Australian National Airways Pty Ltd, Essendon; named "Mundoora".
Badly damaged on landing at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, South Australia 5.2.38; repaired Essendon and re-flown 20.9.38. Registration cancelled 19.7.40 when impressed into RAAF as A33-4, and to 3 EFTS Essendon same day. To 1 AOS Cootamundra 28.10.40. To DCA 15.4.42.
Registration VH-UXT restored 21.4.42 to Commonwealth Govt. To Airlines of Australia Ltd, Sydney. Crashed on landing Wynyard, Tasmania 18.8.43 and ran into ditch. Captain F. H. Dawson and 3 passengers unhurt. Not repaired and used for spares; some parts to shipped to Perth on SS Lowana and used to help rebuild VH-UZY in March 1944. Registration VH-UXT cancelled 31.10.43
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a33.htm
3. http://www.aviationcollection.org/ANA/ana.htm
4. http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/dh89/dh89.htm
5. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89-dragon-rapide-wynyard
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U1.html
7. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/84-register-australia
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Dec-2011 18:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2014 02:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-May-2014 01:14 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Feb-2019 18:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source] |
| 20-Feb-2019 18:11 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 07-Jun-2022 06:36 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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