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    Airframe Family: Noorduyn Norseman
    Latest Model:UC-64A Norseman
    Last Military Serial:A71-14 RAAF
    Construction Number:272
    Last Civil Registration:VH-BHF
    Compressed ID:Noorduyn UC-64A sn A71-14 RAAF cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:Zinc Corporation Ltd, Melbourne Vic

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an UC-64A.

    4 December 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-5281.
    Shipped to Australia.

    7 March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A71-14.

    Transferred to No. 3 Aircraft Depot, Amberley, Queensland.

    28 November 1947

    To Kingsford Smith Aviation Service, Mascot, NSW.

    5 March 1948

    To Zinc Corporation Ltd (Aviation Division), Broken Hill, NSW with new c/r VH-BHF.

    August 1948

    To Silver City Airways (Australia) Pty Ltd, Broken Hill NSW keeping c/r VH-BHF.

    1949


    Photographer: Ed Coates
    Notes: Broken Hill NSW 1949.

    18 December 1951

    To Zinc Corporation Ltd, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-BHF.

    17 September 1952

    Destroyed.
    Destroyed by fire at Mainoru airstrip, Arnhemland, NTThe aircraft caught fire on the ground due to an electric fault in the HF radio. It was being used to transport workers to zinc silver deposits found near Mainoru Station, 300 miles SE Darwin.

    December 1952

    Civil registration, VH-BHF, cancelled.


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: The burnt remains of VH-BHF at Mainoru Station NT during the 1960s.
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