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Plaque to Stinson crash, O'Reilly's Guest House, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. The plaque documents the air crash on 19 February 1937 of the 'City of Brisbane' with the deaths of Rex Boyden, Beverley Shepherd, James Westray, Roland Graham and William Fountain, the survival of Josiah Binstead and John Proud and the role of Bernard O'Reilly in locating the site. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Passengers boarding a flight, Toowoomba airport, 1959. Slide by Heatherbell Mellor, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Passengers boarding a De Havilland Dragon aircraft at Cracow. The gold mining town of Cracow, two days journey by road from Rockhampton, was established in the 1930s. Ron Adair’s Aircrafts Pty Ltd commenced flights to the town on 29 December 1930, in a way not dissimilar to today’s fly-in/fly-out services to the mining industry. From February 1934 Aircrafts Pty Ltd was one of a small number of aviation organisations subsidised by the Commonwealth through a Special Grant because of their services to the community.