The Search for Smithy – Australian Aviation

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Sir Charles Kingsford Smith with the Lady Southern Cross in October 1935.

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He was Australia’s greatest aviator and became one of Australia’s greatest aviation mysteries. Pioneering pilot Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, namesake of Sydney Airport, disappeared along with his co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge over the Andaman Sea in 1935.

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For decades, the exact fate and location of Smithy, Tommy and their plane, the Lady Southern Cross remained a mystery, but now an Australian writer, filmmaker and explorer is sure he has found his final resting place.

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