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18_000062 SDASM Image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2023
Bilstein_00333 Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 on Lake Elsinore 1934 from SDASM Archives uploaded November 2019
Bilstein_00062 Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 from SDASM Archives uploaded November 2019
Photograph depicting the deck of HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting William Frank Cook aboard HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting William Frank Cook onboard HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting a life buoy of HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Crew member of HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting William Frank Cook onboard HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
HMAS Wyatt Earp officers and ANARE scientists celebrate during an ‘Across the Circle’ party, February 1948. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting the deck of the HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting William Frank Cook, of the Royal Australian Navy. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting the deck of the HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
Photograph depicting the deck of the HMAS Wyatt Earp. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018
HMAS Wyatt Earp moored at the Bay of Whales. from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons uploaded January 2018

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Bilstein_00333 Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 on Lake Elsinore 1934

from SDASM Archives

Kerry Taylor said:
Info from aerialvisuals.ca Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 MSN 2 By 1934 To Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition with c/r NR12269. Operated with markings: Polar Star. Used by explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon for Antarctic exploration, culminating in a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Little America station, with five stops, in November-December 1935. They reportedly attempted to reach the South Pole, but made a forced landing only 25 miles short of the pole. The aircraft was recovered a year later and donated to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, where it is on display, and is the only Gamma in existence today.

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from SDASM Archives

Greg Bishop said:
royalaviationmuseum.com/article-1935-antarctic-flight/

The Polar Star, the aircraft loaded onto HMAS Wyatt Earp for the expedition.

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

TVL1970 said:
This is not the "Polar Star," Lincoln Ellsworth's Northrop Gamma 2B (NR-12269; c/n 2). That aircraft was used during Ellsworth's 1934-35 Antarctic expeditions. This aircraft is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Vought-Sikorsky OS2U-3 Kingfisher, RAAF Serial No. A48-13 (ex- USN BuNo 5977), used for the 1947/48 Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) aboard HMAS Wyatt Earp. Originally constructed for use by the Royal Netherlands Navy (and to wear the serial V-12) in the Netherlands East Indies, the aircraft was instead delivered to the RAAF in April 1942 and used for seaplane training through World War II. The airplane was placed into storage in August 1945, soon after the Empire of Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. The aircraft was removed from storage on October 21, 1947, and prepared for use by the ANARE, including the addition of an engine pre-heater and a new high-visibility yellow paint scheme. She'd be taken aboard HMAS Wyatt Earp on December 13, 1947. See: www.adf-serials.com.au/2a48.htm Also: www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/lincoln-polar-star-... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Gamma

HMAS Wyatt Earp officers and ANARE scientists celebrate during an ‘Across the Circle’ party, February 1948.

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Lins Oz said:
I believe that the man (seated) in this photo - in the 'RAAF' top holding a white cup - is (Wing Commander) Robin Henry Seaborn Gray (DFC). His RAAF service records in the National Archives record his posting to Wyatt Earp and the 1948 expedition. Later he went on to join his friend (Wing Commander) Bobby Gibbes in Papua New Guinea and Gibbes Sepik Airways. He died in Brisbane in 1986.