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DH.86A Holyman’s Airways VH-UUB Loila at Essendon Airport. Evocative view with battery cart plugged in to assist engine start. Colour scheme seems to be overall silver. Note wind driven generator inboard upper port wing. Impressed, to RAAF A31-3. In service No. 1 Aerial Ambulance Unit. Destroyed by fire on 19 April 1942 at Heliopolis Aerodrome, Cairo, Egypt following being hit by RAF Beaufighter X7804 after it suffered an engine failure. (State Library Victoria – Lyle 1891-1969 photographer)
