Warbirds Online visited the airworthy restoration of DAP Bristol Beaufort A9-141 based at Caboolture airfield in February to view the recent progress on restoring this great Warbird. The Beaufort is repositioned yet again to allow for the fitting of the starboard wing which has been much anticipated. The wing is completed and preparations are being made […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
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 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 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
Greg Batts’ work on the CAC Boomerang “collection” in Brisbane continues. Regular readers will recall that at present, four CAC Boomerangs are being worked on within the workshop and work has progressed on all four over the past 3 months. CAC Boomerang A46-249 A46-249 is a CA-19, (last Boomerang built by CAC), being worked on […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Since our last report on the restoration of Jack McDonald’s Hawker Demon much change has taken place at Caboolture. The major event has been the relocation of the project to the new ”Beaufort Restoration” hangar along with the DAP Beaufort , tools and other aircraft in the collection as well as Jack’s MiG 17 fighter. […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects