Warbirds Online recently visited the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour Sydney NSW to photograph the beautifully restored Westland Wessex helicopter, an Mk31A/B serial N7-216 WA216. This is one of 27 Wessex Helicopters operated by the RAN from 1962 until retirement of the type in 1989. This is a long time for a naval […]
Helicopters, RAN historic aircraft
Warbirds Online hasn’t visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Nowra, NSW for some years, in fact 30 years! So we took the opportunity to visit the site on our recent trip to NSW. Many years ago, the Museum was largely an outdoors display, however over the decades a roof was added and finally a […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Helicopters, Warbird Restoration Projects
Regular readers will remember that we reported last year on the ongoing retirement of the Westland Sea King Helicopter from UK service. There will still be opportunities to see some of these long serving and capable aircraft in coming years but as spare parts run down and replacement aircraft such as the Agusta Westland Merlin […]
Helicopters
Recently the Westland Sea King helicopter was retired from service in Australia and it appears that all, bar one example have been disposed of overseas, with some parts and wreckage also extant at Nowra, NSW Australia. It is unusual that an aircraft with such an extensive and productive 35 years of service to the nation […]
Helicopters