For the 100 year anniversary commemorating WWI Warbirds Online visits the AWM to view the second of two genuine original WWI German aircraft in the collection of the AWM, the Pfalz D.XII Scout . Previously we covered the Albatros D.Va single engine biplane scout/fighter aircraft, serial no. D5390/17. However, the second aircraft is even rarer […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
The Temora Aviation Museum is currently home to the only two Supermarine Spitfires flying in Australia, including Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII Civil Rego VH-HET, RAAF S/n: A58-758 which we covered in our article The Pay Spitfire – The Last of the Best. The “other” Spitfire is Mk XVI Ex RAF TB863 Civil Reg VH-XVI. This […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Recently Warbirds Online visited Parkes NSW to assist in the storage and reorganization of some of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) holdings of aircraft components and memorabilia at its facility located in the former Austop wool processing plant. HARS is a huge not for profit Aviation Historical organization who’s principle base is located at […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbirds
New Aviation Museums are a rare thing in recent times, given the economic conditions and competing priorities for available resources so the establishment of a new Museum is a newsworthy event. The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) is in the process of setting up the Parkes Aviation Museum as an offshoot of HARS and has […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Today we report on Lockheed PV-1 Ventura ex RAAF A59-96 currently under restoration by the Queensland Air Museum (QAM). The only other remaining Ventura in Australia is the RAAF Museum example, as reported on by us in this article in 2015 and finished as A59-72. Other major components are in unrestored storage in Darwin. The […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
A species of radial engined “Warbird” which is becoming increasingly rare is the Convair CV-240, 340 440 series of medium transports and their military derivations. Warbirds Online was recently at the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS Aviation Museum) at Albion Park NSW to view Convair CV-440, ZS-ARV. She arrived on the 21 August 2016 after […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft
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
Warbirds Online features one of the rarer types of Japanese aircraft surviving from WWII the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (“Peregrine Falcon”). The Ki-43 was a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War 11. Total production amounted to 5,919 aircraft and it was well regarded by its pilots and […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects