VH-UUY
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Type: | B.A. Eagle Mk II |
MSN: | 128 |
Previous Identities: | Nil |
28SEP35 | U.K. CofA #5154 issued in the name of Adastra Airways Ltd., Mascot. Valid until 27SEP36. |
30OCT35 | First flown at Feltham, U.K. |
11APR36 | Registration application from Adastra Airways Ltd., Mascot (F.W. Follett). |
12APR36 | Inspected on assembly at Mascot. Total Time 4:15 hrs. |
16APR36 | Registered VH-UUY to Adastra Airways, Mascot, NSW. CofA 536 and CofR 579 issued same day. |
AUG36 | An "Eagle" aerial camera was installed in the aircraft. |
AUG36 | To NOV36 the aircraft was engaged in photo survey work at Cairns, Qld. It was reported that Cairns aerodrome floods at high tide causing salt water corrosion to the undercarriage. |
11MAY37 | Inspected at Mascot. Total Time 505:10 hrs. |
AUG37 | Adastra advise that VH-UUY will be based at Cairns for some months. |
09AUG37 | Forced landing on Meachams Beach, Qld (8 miles north of Cairns) due engine failure. The engine seized when an oil line broke. Pilot Norm Rodoni. Aircraft not damaged and later dismantled and towed at low tide back to Cairns aerodrome where the engine was replaced with one brought from Sydney. |
15AUG37 | New engine installed. |
APR38 | VH-UUY is engaged in survey work in the Coffs Harbour area. |
30MAY38 | Total Time 890:55 hrs. |
22JUN38 | VH-UUY was shipped from Sydney to Port Moresby on the "Montoro" for a series of survey flights for Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co Ltd. Pilot was Norm Rodoni. |
26JAN39 | Lap straps were fitted to the passenger seats. |
24MAR39 | Inspected at Mascot. Total Time 1042 hrs. (Time since overhaul 147:55 hrs.). |
02JUN39 | Total Time 1107:30 hrs. |
27SEP39 | Adastra advise DCA that the Eagle has been held in reserve for the Bega service and has not operated on survey for more than twelve months. Adastra also advise that the purchase price of the Eagle had been £1,600/-/-. |
24APR40 | Total Time 1177:10 hrs. (Time since overhaul 69:40 hrs.). |
12AUG40 | Adastra advise DCA that the previously suspended Sydney-Bega service will recommence on 19AUG40 using the reserve machine, Eagle VH-UUY. |
22AUG40 | Forced landing on Surf Beach at Shell Harbour, NSW due loss of oil pressure. The engine was changed. The aircraft was engaged in RPT operations, presumably on the service between Sydney and Bega. |
SEP40 | Withdrawn from service at Mascot pending sale. |
23MAY41 | Total Time 1326:35 hrs. |
21NOV41 | Adastra advise DCA that they wish to sell VH-UUY to E.E. McIllree and that E.H. Loneragan will fly the aircraft to Mudgee for storage for the duration of the war. |
21NOV41 | Letter from Adastra to DCA: "……the machine has been surplus to our requirements for more than 12 months, during which time it has not flown. The machine was offered to the Air Board who refused it on the grounds that it was not suitable for their work. This Co. requires the funds from the sale to re-invest in workshop plant and equipment to carry out contracts for the Ministry of Munitions - we have on hand at present work for the Vickers M.G. Project - and plant is becoming available but must be accepted by us immediately" |
25NOV41 | Change of ownership to Eric Edward McIllree, Darling Point, Sydney, NSW. |
26NOV41 | Internal DCA memo states that it is understood from Adastra Airways that this machine will not be flown until the purchaser obtains a Private Pilots Licence, the machine being stored by James Loneragan Ltd., Mudgee and is being flown there for this purpose. |
28NOV41 | Internal DCA memo states that the camera was removed from the aircraft on sale. |
06JAN42 | Internal DCA memo states that Mr McIllree still does not hold a PPL. |
09JAN42 | Request for petrol by Flying Officer E. H. Loneragan. He is not hiring the aircraft from McIllree, but teaching him to fly whilst at the same time using the aircraft to fly from Camden to Mudgee where F/O Loneragan is Managing Director of Jas. Loneragan [Mudgee] Ltd. |
24NOV43 | Damaged on landing at Mascot at end of CofA renewal flight by P.J. Loneragan. Undercarriage and prop damaged. |
24FEB44 | Port undercarriage collapsed on landing at Mudgee, NSW. Pilot P.J. Loneragan. Slight damage to fuselage under cockpit. |
21APR44 | Change of ownership to Jas Loneragan (Mudgee) Pty Ltd, Mudgee, NSW. |
24OCT46 | CofA expired. |
31OCT46 | Aircraft had not been repaired after the accident on 24FEB44 but is now under repair. |
14DEC46 | CofA is being delayed awaiting new petrol tanks being manufactured by DH. |
08OCT47 | CofR renewed. |
01MAR48 | CofA renewed. Total Time 1629 hrs. (Time since overhaul 114:20 hrs.) |
28FEB49 | Struck off Register. |
30MAR49 | CofR renewed. |
06JUN51 | CofA renewed. |
29JUN51 | Aircraft is being operated by Mr Bryan Loneragan of Gulgong, NSW but is still owned by Jas Loneragan (Mudgee) Pty Ltd. |
22APR59 | Total Time 1929:45 hrs. |
01MAY63 | Total Time 1992:25. (Time since overhaul 62:40 hrs.) |
01DEC64 | Change of ownership to Ian Grant Hope, Oberon, NSW. |
14JAN65 | Owner's change of address to Bathurst, NSW. |
12JUL65 | Landed at Bathurst with the undercarriage only partially extended. Pilot, I.G. Hope had just flown from Mudgee to Bathurst. Prop and u/c damaged. Nil injuries. |
07APR66 | Aircraft inspected at Bathurst and found to be in poor condition. |
01MAY66 | CofA expired. |
27MAY66 | An examination of the log books shows that the engine has been modified to a Gipsy Major 1C standard without DCA approval. |
28NOV68 | Mr Hope requests that the aircraft be removed from the Register. |
11JUL69 | Struck off Register. |
Subsequently, the aircraft became derelict at Bathurst, NSW with the owner resisting all approaches to sell it, intending to rebuild it himself one day. Eventually, it was sold to the Challinor brothers of Murwillumbah, NSW but by that time its back had broken, bits of wood were scattered far and wide and they were digging metal fittings out of the ground. Some parts were subsequently incorporated in the Challinor's restoration of Eagle VH-UTI. When VH-UTI was sold to Roy Fox he also acquired the remains of VH-UUY. |
Issue | Date | Remarks |
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5 | 09OCT20 |
Added
another image of the aircraft on the
beach at Shellharbour after its forced landing on 22AUG40. Thanks
to Peter Hazelton and Paul Hockey.
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4 | 05SEP15 |
Added
an image of the aircraft on the beach
at Shellharbour after its forced landing on 22AUG40. Thanks
to Paul Hockey.
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3 | 25AUG15 | |
2 | 01JUN03 |
Much
detail has been added thanks to Chris O'Neill. This information
was sourced from File MP113/1 VH/UUY Part 1 [337951] held at
the N.A.A., Melbourne, Vic. and Files C3905/9 VH/UUY Part 2
[32] [4040239] and C3905/8 VH/UUY Part 3 [92] [3540947] both
held at the N.A.A., Chester Hill, NSW. Extracted 05.02.2003
[Vic] and 21.03.2003 [NSW].
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1 | 30MAY03 |
Thanks
to Geoff Goodall, Graham Orphan, Nick Challinor, Roy Fox and
Tony Arbon.
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