Faith in Australia, c. 1933-1990

Component identifier:

Series 6

Content Summary:

After Australian National Airways went into liquidation, Ulm bought one of the remaining planes and called it Faith in Australia. Ulm flew the Faith in Australia with Sir Gordon Taylor to England in 1933, returning to Australia in record-breaking time. In 1934 he flew the first official airmail flight to New Zealand and to Papua New Guinea.

This small series includes newspaper cuttings, articles, correspondence, a photograph of the aircraft, a book of tickets for the ANZAC memorial appeal passenger flight on the Faith in Australia, and an envelope commemorating the first official airmail from Australia to Papua New Guinea. Also filed here are articles written in the 1970s and 1980s commemorating Ulm and the Faith in Australia.

VH-UXX denotes the Australian registration of the aircraft.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection has dual provenance. It consists of papers collected by Charles Ulm, and also items collected about Ulm by his son, John, which have been kept together because of the interrelated nature of their creation. The original instalment was donated to the Library by John Ulm in June 2003 in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Library of Australia to mark the 75th Anniversary of his father's 1928 Trans-Pacific flight.

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