Sopwith Wallaby

The Sopwith Wallaby was a single-engined long-range biplane built in 1919 by the Sopwith Aviation Company at Kingston upon Thames. It was designed to compete for the Australian government prize of 10,000 pounds for a flight from England to Australia and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engine, with an open two-seat cockpit whose seats could be retracted inside the enclosed cabin. The aircraft, registered G-EAKS, left Hounslow for Australia on 21 October 1919 and crashed on the island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies on 17 April 1920. It was shipped to Australia, rebuilt as an eight-seat transport and used by Australian Aerial Services.