A plaquette related to the Border's best-known aviation story has been offered to Albury Library Museum by a relative of an original crew member.
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Suzanna Kranenburg is the only grandchild of Uiver aircraft maintenance engineer Bouwe Prins (1901-1973).
Mr Prins received the commemorative piece from the chamber of commerce in Batavia to recognise his role in the flight of the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Douglas DC-2 Uiver in the 1934 London to Melbourne MacRobertson International Centenary Air Race.
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The Uiver made an emergency landing in Albury during the event, with citizens using car headlights to guide it down safely at the racecourse.
Uiver historian Noel Jackling said only five plaquettes had been planned, with the four for the crew members made with brass plates mounted on wood.
"A fifth was intended for the Uiver and was to have a silver plate, but it is not known whether this was ever made for the Uiver, or if made, installed prior to the Uiver's crash in the Syrian Desert in Iraq only four weeks after its triumphant return to Holland in November 1934," he said.
Engraved on each metal plate is the race route and the Uiver's stopping points, including the unscheduled Albury stage, as well as the crew members' names and positions.
Mr Jackling and fellow researcher Will Porrio said two other plaquettes were held by family members or collectors while a third was believed to have been stolen in the 1960s.
"When and where (the plaquette) was given to Bouwe Prins is not known, but it was presumably given after his return to Holland on or after November 21, 1934," the researchers said.
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