A crowd gathers around the first single engined aircraft, a DH9, to be flown from England to ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin
Accession Number A04244
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film polyester negative
Maker Unknown
Date made 1920
Conflict Period 1920-1929
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A crowd gathers around the first single engined aircraft, a DH9, to be flown from England to Australia by Lieutenant (Lieut) Raymond John R Parer and Lieut John C McIntosh, the men left England on 8 January 1920 and arrived in Darwin on 2 August 1920.