Warbirds Online attended the RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre open day on Sunday the 21st of February 2016. The Heritage Centre days are becoming very popular and the traffic queue was very long extending for several kilometres, but it was well worth the wait. Since our last visit to the center the new front gate has […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
It is 18 months since Warbirds Online last visited Peter Brooke at Historical Aircraft Engines in Brisbane Queensland to examine the fantastic work he is doing on the restoration of the Bristol Hercules engines to be utilized in the restoration of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) Beaufighter project as well as some other HARS […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online continues with a short update on the Pay’s Warbird collection at Scone, NSW. Hawker Hurricane C/N 60372, C-FDNL, Mk XII / IIB Serial No 5481 is currently having a multitude of small details finished before she takes to the air for its first flight. The aircraft has recently been in the paint shop […]
Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online has a great affection for the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (known as the Wooden Wonder) in its many variants, not least of all because the type was built under license here in Australia during and after WW11 and served the RAAF with distinction although for a number of reasons it was too late […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft
Warbirds Online attended the Warbirds Downunder Airshow at Temora on the 20th and 21st of November 2015 and it was a great event. One of the feature attendees at the Airshow was Chance Vought Corsair F4U-5N, Bu No 124493 FAH603, VH-III. The aircraft displayed several times at Temora and is a beautiful sounding machine on the ground […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online continues its series on Australian War Memorial (AWM) exhibits, with a story on Hawker Sea Fury VW232 finished as VX730 on display at the AWM, Canberra. The Hawker Sea Fury was one of the last active piston engine fighters to see service with the Navies of the World and it was also one of […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAN historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online recently traveled to Canberra to see the restoration of RAAF Lockheed Hudson A16-105 at the Treloar Technology Centre, the Australian War Memorial’s storage and workshop facility to get an update on progress since our last report on the project in 2014. Jamie Croker, one of the Memorial’s Large Technology Conservators restoring the historic […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Today Warbirds Online acknowledges one of the most notable original P40 restorations on display anywhere in the world, Curtiss P-40E-1 Tail Number 41-36084 ex RAAF serial A29-133 that is on display at Australian War Memorial (AWM) Canberra ACT. The P40 was an extremely important type to the RAAF in WWII. It was for a long […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects