Warbirds Online recently travelled to RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland to look up an old favourite restoration of ours, Avro Anson Mk 1, W2472. Regular readers will recall our news article dated 1 July, 2013, New Avro Anson for Amberley, when the wreck arrived at RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre for restoration in the queue of projects […]
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It has been some time since Warbirds Online visited the Workshop of Greg Batts of Combat Aircraft Constructions at Archerfield, Brisbane. Readers will recall that Greg has been restoring his own CA-12 Boomerang in addition to currently working on 3 other CA-12 Boomerang’s A46-55, A46-77 and A46-92, not to mention having done fuselage work on […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online has been working with The Hunter Fighter Collection Inc. located at Scone NSW on a great initiative to acquire 2 major aircraft types to be displayed at the Scone Warbird Visitor Attraction, scheduled to open in December 2021. Today we share news that the Scone Warbird Attraction is pending the arrival of 2 […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
The exciting news for Warbird enthusiasts is that the work to build the new Warbird Aviation Attraction at Scone NSW is proceeding very well. This will be the first purpose built Military Aviation Museum facility built in many years in Australia and will be a significant boost to the Warbird movement in Australia. So far […]
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Warbirds Online has been visiting the Australian War Memorial for over 50 years and one of the great focuses of interest for us has been the extensive collection of Australian Defence Force aircraft dating back over 100 years. This is an internationally recognized collection and is growing by the day. Recently it was announced that […]
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More exciting news from Scone NSW – Ross Pay has purchased two former RAAF Forward Air Control CA-25 Winjeels, A85-411 and A85-426 plus a spares holding. The move to purchase the aircraft comes as the Scone Aviation Attraction Museum is under development at Scone airport. The two aircraft operated extensively in the Hunter Valley from […]
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Warbirds Online completes our series on the repainting of CAC Mustang CA-18 PR.22 A68-199 at Scone NSW. The refinishing of the aircraft is now complete and the aircraft is back in service. There is no camera installation as yet which will complete her restoration if it is decided to take that step. At present, as […]
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The refinishing of Mustang CA-18 PR.22 A68-199 at Scone NSW is ongoing under the watchful eye of Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR). Warbirds Online returned to Scone in early November 2019 to discover what progress had been made in the application of the color scheme. Previously we reported (Oct 2019) on the aircrafts history, previous color […]
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