Australian National Airways (1930)

Australian National Airways was a short-lived Australian airline, founded in 1929 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.cite web | title = Southern Cloud clock | work = National Museum of Australia | publisher = | url = http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/southern_cloud_clock/ | accessdate = 2008-09-13 ]

The airline began operations in January 1930cite web | title = Australian Dictionary of Biography | work = Australian Dictionary of Biography | publisher = | url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090602b.htm | accessdate = 2008-09-13 ] with five Avro 618 Tens, similar aircraft to Kingsford Smith's famous "Southern Cross". However, the airline folded in 1931 after the crash of VH-UMF "Southern Cloud" in the Australian Alps between Sydney and Melbourne, and VH-UNA "Southern Sun" in Malaya.

Aircraft

:VH-UMF "Southern Cloud" (crashed March 1931):VH-UMG "Southern Star":VH-UMH "Southern Sky" :VH-UMI "Southern Moon":VH-UNA "Southern Sun" (crashed November 1931)

On the airline's dissolution, "Southern Moon" was bought by Ulm, refitted for long-distance flight and reregistered as VH-UXX "Faith in Australia". The other two aircraft were sold to Keith Virtue's New England Airways.

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