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• Auction House:
  Davidson Auctions
• Sale Name:
  Estate & Collector featuring the Collection of the Late Brian Murray
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2019 ~ 12noon (AEST)
  15 Sep 2019 ~ 10am (AEST)
• Lot #:
  38
• Lot Description:
  Various Items, Charles Ulm, Lost on Pacific Flight - Oakland to Sydney 1934
  15 press photographs & 3 drawings from the San Francisco Examiner archives, two associated press photos & one from Acme Newspictures. The photographs show Ulm & his crew preparing for the flight, signing registers, fuelling the plane, studying charts & the plane at take off. The three drawings are of the flight plan & the search area near Honolulu. Ulm originally intended to fly from Vancouver B.C. to Sydney via Honolulu, Fanning Island, Fiji & Auckland but there was a change of plans & the flight started from Oakland Airport with co-pilot G.M. Littlejohn & navigator / wireless operator J.S. Skilling making up an all Australian crew of the Airspeed Envoy 'Stella Australis.' The plane left Oakland on December 4, 1934 & came down in the ocean near the Hawaiian Islands. Despite a massive search by the United States Navy involving 23 ships & dozens of airplanes no trace of 'Stella Australis' or her crew was ever found. Five other Ulm items incl. 1928 portrait photograph of Ulm in his flight-lieutenant's uniform with Maori guide 'Bella;' two press photos of Ulm after the Trans Pacific flight of 1928; 1928 press photo 'Mrs Ulm sees the plane arriving at Sydney;' & 11 April 1934 2 page press cablegram Auckland to Sydney reporting 'Short Wave Operator at Auckland heard Ulm calling.' This refers to Ulm's New Zealand flight in 'Faith In Australia.'
• Estimate:
  A$150 - 250
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Memorabilia

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