Warbirds Online attended the Wings Over Illawarra (WOI) 2017 Airshow on the 6th and 7th of May. This show has built up a great reputation as one of Australia’s premier airshows over the past few years and this year’s edition was no exception. From a Warbird perspective the first appearance in Australia of Focke-Wulf FW-190 VH-WLF […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online was recently at Caloundra, Queensland to visit the Queensland Air Museum to view the progress on their Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune SP-2H ex RAAF A89-277. This aircraft was delivered to the RAAF in March 1962 and served most of its time at RAAF Townsville and had an extensive service history in Australia and on […]
Australian Warbirds, Cold War, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently visited CAC Boomerang restorer, Ian Baker at his new base in Mittagong NSW. Regular readers will be aware of Ian’s 3 Boomerangs, CA-12s A46-89 and A46-90 and CA-13 A46-140. The two CA-12s are being restored by Ian to airworthy status and it is his intention to retain both of these aircraft. Ian […]
Australian Warbirds, CAC Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online presents the latest update on the CAC Boomerang restorations being undertaken by Greg Batts of Combat Aircraft Constructions at Archerfield, Queensland. We last reported on progress on the Boomerangs in August 2016 and since then there is much progess to reveal. On Saturday 25th of March 2017 Greg held an open day at his new […]
Australian Warbirds, CAC Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online had the opportunity to view the progress on the restoration of DHC4 Caribou A4-228 at Caboolture with the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre Queensland. Once again amazing progress has been made since the last report. The Caribou has had a phenomenal amount of work completed on it including detail electrical, hydraulic and control cable […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Today we share an update on the refurbishment taking place on CA-18 Mk.21 Mustang A68-110 VH-MFT at Caboolture Qld. Warbirds Online visited the ongoing refurbishment of this aircraft during a workshop open day over the 25 and 26th of March 2017. Since our last visit much more of the aircraft has been dismantled including the […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF serial ET433) was the second of two P40 aircraft acquired by the late Col Pay. The first being P40E Hawk 87A-3 c/n 15133 AK752 / VH-KTH. Upon the sale of VH-KTH in 1994, P-40E 41-25109 was acquired from Mike Subritzky, Auckland-Dairy Flat, New Zealand (NZ) who had owned the aircraft since 1991. […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online continues to report on the work being carried out by Vintage Fighter Restorations at Scone NSW on two very historic Supermarine Spitfires, both of which have an excellent WWll provenance, Supermarine Spitfire IX MH 603 and Supermarine Spitfire MH415. Spitfire IX MH 603 Since our last report more progress has been made on […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds