serial K2682. One of the 624 Sixes was used by A.S.T Ltd; the other two were eventually sold to the Chinese government. Accidents and incidents On 30 December 1933, G-ABLU Apollo of Imperial Airways collided with a radio mast and crashed at Ruysselede, Belgium, killing all ten on board. Avro X Southern Cloud crashed whilst en route from Sydney to Melbourne on 21 March 1931, with two crew and eight passengers, but with no survivors. The wreckage was located by chance, off course and facing in the wrong direction, in October 1958 by Thomas Sonter, a New Zealand carpenter employed by the Snowy Mountains Scheme, whilst he was hiking. Variants Type 618 Ten : Ten-seat civil transport aircraft. Fourteen built. Type 619 Five : Five-seat civil transport aircraft. Scaled-down version of Avro Ten. Three 105 hp (78 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major 1 engines. Four aircraft built. Type 624 Six : Six-seat civil transport aircraft. Revised version of Avro Five with accommodation for two pilots and four passengers. Three Genet engines again, but the outer engines in fairings merged into the underside of the wings. Three aircraft built. Operators Civil operators Airlines of Australia Australian National Airways Australian Transcontinental Airways W.R.Carpenter Airlines (later Mandated Airlines) Far Eastern Aviation Company Hart Aircraft Co. Kingsford Smith Air Service Ltd. New England Airways (see Keith Virtue) Queensland Air Navigation Co. Stephens Aviation (New Guinea based) The Government of China British India Indian National Airways Indian State Airways Air Service Training Ltd. Commercial Air Hire Imperial Airways Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Wilson Airways (Kenya based) Military operators Egyptian Army Air Force Royal Air Force Royal Aircraft Establishment Specifications (Avro 618) See also Notable pilots Charles Ulm References Priest, Joan Virtue in Flying. 1975 Angus & Robertson External links Avro 618 Ten VH-UMG—Image collection of Ed Coates Tom Campbell Black—Wilson Airways purchased two Avro 619 Five aircraft, the first in 1929 VP-KAE and VP-KAD at a later date. 618 Ten 1930s British airliners Trimotors High-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1930