How deliciously ironic that an aeroplane named in honour of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith should, one hundred years after the event being celebrated, finally get to display the name ANZAC.
In 1934, Smithy had sought to honour his fellow ANZACs by bestowing this very name on the Lockheed Altair with which he planned to represent Australia in the 1934 Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. The outcome was described by P.G. Taylor in his 1935 book "Pacific Flight":
After some days of negotiation, the machine was registered and we were permitted to fly her within three miles of Mascot aerodrome. The name "ANZAC", together with the entire lacquered surface below it, was removed in the presence of a Customs officer whose duty it was to see that the name was obliterated before the machine was cleared, and she was christened Lady Southern Cross, a good name.