# Hart Aircraft Service

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**Hart Aircraft Service** Pty. Ltd. was an Australian aviation company registered at [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) in mid-1929 with directors James Hart, John Hider and Norman Charles Trescowthick.[1] Director James Hart (c1891-1951) was a former [Royal Flying Corp](/source/Royal_Flying_Corp) aviator who had flown as gunner for [Hereward de Havilland](/source/Hereward_de_Havilland).[2] [Norman Trescowthick](/source/Norman_Trescowthick) had served with distinction in the Australian Flying Corps' famous 4th Squadron with Arthur H. Cobby during the First World War.

## History

Although intended as an aircraft manufacturing and repair business based at [Essendon Airport](/source/Essendon_Airport), by late 1929 it owned a [De Havilland Gipsy Moth](/source/De_Havilland_Gipsy_Moth) VH-UKV *Diana* that it used for charter flights. It serviced the aircraft of the first [Australian National Airways](/source/Australian_National_Airways_(1930)) (ANA) when it began regular flights to Melbourne in 1930. The company became Australian agents for [Desoutter](/source/Desoutter) aircraft, and one of these machines was used in the unsuccessful searches for ANA's missing [Avro 618 Ten](/source/Avro_618_Ten) [*Southern Cloud*](/source/1931_Avro_Ten_Southern_Cloud_disappearance) over several months in 1931.[3]

In April 1933 the company began a regular passenger service between Melbourne and [Launceston, Tasmania](/source/Launceston,_Tasmania) (sometimes via [Flinders Island](/source/Flinders_Island)) using the [Avro 618 Ten](/source/Avro_618_Ten) VH-UMG *Tasman*, formerly ANA's *Southern Star*. It was later authorised to carry airmails on this service. However, following its failure to be awarded a contract for this leg of the [Empire Air Mail Scheme](/source/Empire_Air_Mail_Scheme) early in 1934, it withdrew from the Tasmanian service in March of that year.[4]

Hart Aircraft Service continued its aviation servicing business at Essendon Airport until 1938 when it sold its operations to [Victorian & Interstate Airways](/source/Victorian_%26_Interstate_Airways).[5]

## Fleet

- [De Havilland Gipsy Moth](/source/De_Havilland_Gipsy_Moth)
- [Avro 618 Ten](/source/Avro_618_Ten)

## See also

- [List of defunct airlines of Australia](/source/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_Australia)
- [Aviation in Australia](/source/Aviation_in_Australia)

## References

1. [*The Herald*](/source/The_Herald_(Melbourne)), 3 July 1929

1. *The Herald*, 28 May 1951

1. *[The Age](/source/The_Age)*, 31 October 1931

1. *Daily Commercial News and Shipping List*, 10 March 1934

1. *The Herald*, 23 November 1938

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