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Horrie Miller (aviator)

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Horrie Miller
Born
Horace Clive Miller

(1893-04-30)30 April 1893
Died1980 (aged 86–87)
OccupationPilot
Spouse
(m. 1938)
ChildrenRobin Miller
Miller and friends with DH 60 Gipsy moth VH-UJX. Miller is 2nd from left

Horace Clive Miller OBE (30 April 1893 – 1980) was a pioneering Australian aviator and co-founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA).

He flew in the 1929 Western Australian Centenary Air Race, winning handicap honours.[1][2]

The main road to the Perth International Airport Terminal 1 is named Horrie Miller Drive in honour of the aviator.[3]

On 2 December 1938 He married Mary Durack

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ H.C. Miller - Horrie Miller and the centenary air race of 1929. Sunday Independent (23 hours 31 minutes 58 seconds), 16 Dec. 1984, p. 18
  2. ^ "Western Australian Aviators Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 13 April 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  3. ^ "Horrie Miller Drive, Perth Airport WA 6105 Street Information - allhomes".

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