The Australian Aviation Heritage Centre Queensland (AAHCQ) continues work to restore their newly acquired Westland Wessex Mk31B ex RAN N7-214 coded “24” at Caboolture with a major task to refit the rotor blades. Regular readers will recall from our previous news article that the aircraft was recovered from RAAF Base Williamtown in July 2017. The […]
Australian Warbirds, Helicopters, RAAF historic aircraft
A pleasant surprise for all Warbird enthusiasts in Australia was the recent announcement by Archerfield Qld based Fighter Pilot that they are importing a Supermarine Spitfire XVIe, RAF Serial TE392 from the USA. The aircraft is a single seater and will be based at Archerfield for use as a display aircraft. Until recently the aircraft […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online continues our series on Australian Flying Corps (AFC) aircraft of WWI and today we feature the Airco DH.5 Scout of 1916. This Scout (Fighter) aircraft was designed by the famous Captain Geoffrey de Havilland and was unique in that the top wing of the biplane was moved to the rear of the lower wing […]
AFC Aircraft, Australian Flying Corps, Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
Today we share an update on the restoration by Ian Baker of CAC Boomerang A46-140, a RAAF CA-13 C/N 963 , which regular readers will know has been sold to a customer and is being rebuilt by Ian for the new owner. The aircrafts fuselage shell frame is now completed and is about to be removed for […]
Australian Warbirds, CAC Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Over the past few months the team at Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR) at Scone NSW has been working on and conducting maintenance on several of the Pay’s fleet of Warbirds and this provides an opportunity to view interesting detail of some of the Warbirds internals that is rarely able to be seen. Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Great progress has been made on the restoration work being carried out by Vintage Fighter Restorations at Scone NSW on two Mk IX Supermarine Spitfires, MH603 and MH415. Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXb MH415 Since our last report in August, the restoration on Spitfire MH415 has made significant progress. The wings were previously dismantled and a […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Original WWI Aircraft are very rare in collections of Warbirds around the world and one of the rarest of these is an original Bristol M.1C Scout. Even more significant is the association of the aircraft with a famous Australian, Capt. Harry Butler RFC. This particular aircraft is Serial Number C5001, one of just 125 operational […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
Warbirds Online visited Albion Park, NSW to view the progress on the Warbird restorations being carried out by Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited, located within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s (HARS) facility by Robert Grienert and the team. We recently reported on the work on a Curtiss P40E and 3 Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft, however, there […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds