This Day in History: 1919-11-19

Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Narromine and flew to Nyngan on 19 November 1919 on the forth leg of an aerial survey of a suitable route from Melbourne to Darwin. Flying in the single-engined Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2e B6183, their north-westerly route of approximately 120km took them over Trangie and Nevertire. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.