VH-UOQ  de Havilland D.H.60M Moth            (c/n  1483)

                              

                                     This Moth was first registered to Adastra Airways in August 1930.  A photo of it in original
                                     livery is seen at the foot of the page.  Contributor Ian Mcdonell indicates that the titling on this
                                     shots states "Hardy and Follett, NSW, 1931".   The Adastra logo can be seen on the cowling.
                                     It had several owners until impressed into the RAAF in 1940 for its spare parts.   One of these
                                     owners added spats and gave it the name 'Goldfinch'.   -UOQ crashed into Cronulla Bay in
                                     February of 1935 but was repaired and restored to the register by September of that year, only
                                     to crash again in the Blue Mountains a month later in December.  (Very irritating for the bloke
                                     that did the rebuild).  The above image is from the Len Dobbin collection, courtesy of the Civil
                                     Aviation Historical Society archives, and lower, earlier (sans spats) from the John Oxley Library,
                                     State Library of Queensland collection.

                                    *  A photo showing -UOQ when brand new in front of Adastra's hangar at Mascot appears in
                                        the following entry for VH-UOR.