Holyman's Airways

De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The pilot Norman K. Field was performing a training flight when flying at low altitude over East Oakliegh, near Mount Waverley, in the suburb of Melbourne, the single engine aircraft hit telephone wires and a chimney before crashing in flames onto a house. The pilot was killed while nobody on the ground was hurt.

De Havilland DH.86 Express

While cruising over Bass Strait, between Tasmania and Australia, the four engine aircraft christened 'Loina' went out of control and crashed into the sea, some 3 km off Flinders Island. All five occupants were killed. Crew: Arthur Evans, pilot, Maxwell Brown, copilot. Passengers: G. S. Anderson, G. Garlick, Edward Best.

De Havilland DH.86 Express

While overflying Bass Strait, the four engine aircraft named 'Miss Hobart' crashed in unknown circumstances some 16 km off the coast of the Wilsons Promontory National Park. SAR teams found some debris and oil leak at the surface of the water a day later but no trace of the 11 occupants was ever found. Crew: Cpt Victor C. Holyman, pilot and cofounder of the airliner, Cpt Gilbert Jenkins.