VH-UXH
Lockheed 10A Electra
(c/n 1060)
This
shot is from the Pete Clukey collection and came from Lockheed Aircraft
(now Lockheed
Martin)
files. It depicts VH-UXH at a very sparse and barren
Burbank in 1936 prior to its
shipment to Guinea
Airways. No company titles had, at that stage, been
applied. It was
intended to be used
in services in Papua/New Guinea but was found to be unsuitable for this
rough work. In the
event it was used mainly on war-time courier services between Adelaide
and
Darwin, and, after WW
II was sold to Union Airways in New Zealand as ZK-ALH. The
gorgeous shot below is
from the J.T. Harrison collection (via Phil Vabre) and shows the
aircraft
over Melbourne showgrounds and Flemington Racecourse. The name
on the nose is "C.J. Levien"
in honor of the
founder of Guinea Airways, and there also appears to be a blemish to
the aircraft's
skin aft of this
name.
The third photo shows -UXH in service with Guinea logo and
titling, whilst
the next image
is an interesting one from the Robert Milburn collection
showing -UXH ar
Oodnadatta,
SA in 1939 with
a bunch of newly delivered
Ansons. Pursuant to its wartime service, the photo at
the foot of
the page from the S.A. State Library collection (via Fred Niven) shows
-UXH in camou-
flage.......dark upper surfaces, light underbelly.