VH-UDC / ‘G-AUDK’ Bristol 28 Tourer replica, at Museum of Geraldton, Western Australia – 19 January 2022. One of three Bristol Tourer replicas built in Australia. The first was a non-flying static display replica painted as ‘G-AUDK’, built in 1980–81, which was donated in 1986 to the RAAF Association Aviation Heritage Museum, at Bull Creek, Perth, Western Australia. As there are two replicas painted as ‘G-AUDK’, this causes some confusion among historians. In 1984-1985, an Australian company had two airworthy Bristol Tourer replicas built in Brisbane, QLD by Air Charter Pty Ltd for a television mini-series ‘A Thousand Skies’, about the life of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. They were registered as Air Charter Bristol F.2b Tourers: VH-UDC (c/n QA-32-1, painted as G-AUDK) and VH-UDR (c/n QA-32-2, painted as G-AUDJ). These aircraft were powered by 172 kw (230 hp) Continental IO-520 six-cylinder engines, with fuselages of steel tube and wings of wood, with fabric covering overall. On 1 June 1992, VH-UDC (painted as G-AUDK) was on a 70-year commemorative flight by owner/pilot Barry Hempel when it suffered engine trouble and was damaged in a forced landing on North West Coastal Highway, 100 kilometres north of Geraldton. The aircraft was restored by Mid West Aero Club and the Shire of Greenough donated it to the Western Australian Museum at Geraldton, where it is now displayed suspended from the ceiling. This is a fitting location, given that the first scheduled air service in Australia by Bristol Tourers of West Australian Airways began at Geraldton Airport on 5 December 1921. The other flying replica, VH-UDR (painted as G-AUDJ) was withdrawn from use in March 1986 and converted to a Bristol F.2b Fighter configuration, painted to represent C-4623 and now displayed at the Army Aviation Museum at Oakey, Queensland. Photo © David Eyre.