The airline that was affected by the 1931 Avro Ten Southern Cloud disappearance was founded by the person who made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928.
Australian National Airways was a short-lived Australian airline, founded in 1929 by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. 
 In 1928, he earned global fame when he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. 
The Southern Cloud, registered VH-UMF, was one of five Avro 618 Ten three-engined aircraft flying daily airline services between several Australian cities for Australian National Airways in the early 1930s. 
