Horrie Miller blazes the way for Australia-wide links with first airmail to Sydney in 1924 from Hendon in Adelaide

(Then Lieutenant) Horrie Miller (behind the pilot) with an Avro 504K H3033 of the Australian Air Corps in South Australia for the Second Peace Loan in 1920.

Horrie Miller started Australia's first capital-to-capital airmail run, from Adelaide to Sydney in 1924, from Harry Butler’s Hendon (Albert Park) aerodrome in Adelaide's west. The airmail route was Adelaide-Mildura-Hay-Narrandera-Cootamundra-Sydney over 24 hours.

Horrie Miller added to the colour of Adelaide aviation when he arrived in 1921, with a background as an Australian Air Corps war pilot and in barnstorming (stunt flying). He was an owner of Commercial Aviation Company, whose early flights around South Australia used a G-AUCF Armstrong-Whitworth FK8, later sold to the fledgling Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) at Longreach.

Miller Miller set up operations at Harry Butler’s Hendon (Albert Park) aerodrome in Adelaide's west where, in 1924, the first Adelaide-Sydney airmail run started, involving another operator, the controversial Joe Larkin, in the early competitive days of Australian airlines.

In 1927, philanthropist and confectioner MacPherson Robertson helped Miller to set up another airline, MacPherson Miller Aviation, and used it to carry chocolates from Melbourne to Adelaide. Many other early flights were to carry medical emergencies: a precursor to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

MacPherson Robertson initially flew out of Hendon (Albert Park) and Parafield, where Miller was the first person to land.

The Sydney-to-Perth air race used Parafield in October 1929 when 16 aircraft called in to refuel. Horrie Miller won the event on handicap in his DH9 G-AUHT. MacRobertson Miller Airlines was taken over by Ansett Airlines in 1963.