Warbirds Online attended the Temora Aviation Museum’s (TAM) Warbirds Downunder Airshow 2018 on October 12 – October 13, which again was a spectacular success. With a great line up of Warbirds in attendance, the Warbirds on display were high on quality and quantity, with only a couple of no shows due to unserviceability. Coupled with […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently visited the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre located at Caboolture, Qld to review the progress on the restoration of DAP/ Bristol Beaufort A9-141. Progress since we last visited has been steady but constant and the hard working team have completed many items required to progress the goal to get the Beaufort airworthy. Work […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
The Parkes Aero Club celebrates 70 years in 2018 with an Aero Spectacular on Saturday 14 April, 2018 10am – 4pm at Parkes Regional Airport, NSW. The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), Parkes Aviation Museum will be supporting an Aero Spectacular organized by the Parkes Aero Club to celebrate its 70th anniversary of the on Saturday […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
The Australian Aviation Heritage Centre Queensland (AAHCQ) continues work to restore their newly acquired Westland Wessex Mk31B ex RAN N7-214 coded “24” at Caboolture with a major task to refit the rotor blades. Regular readers will recall from our previous news article that the aircraft was recovered from RAAF Base Williamtown in July 2017. The […]
Australian Warbirds, Helicopters, RAAF historic aircraft
Today we share an update on the restoration by Ian Baker of CAC Boomerang A46-140, a RAAF CA-13 C/N 963 , which regular readers will know has been sold to a customer and is being rebuilt by Ian for the new owner. The aircrafts fuselage shell frame is now completed and is about to be removed for […]
Australian Warbirds, CAC Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Over the past few months the team at Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR) at Scone NSW has been working on and conducting maintenance on several of the Pay’s fleet of Warbirds and this provides an opportunity to view interesting detail of some of the Warbirds internals that is rarely able to be seen. Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Robert Grienert has recently completed the restoration of a Curtiss P40E Kittyhawk, tail number 41-25163, for the Pima Air and Space Museum of Tucson, Arizona USA. The aircraft is a composite restoration utilizing components from several sources. The aircraft fuselage was built at Wangaratta by Precision Aerospace and then completed along with its Alaskan wings […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) took delivery of one of its most ambitious projects yet with the formal handover of former RAAF Lockheed Orion AP-3C A9-753 from Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Leo Davies AO CSC on Friday 3rd November 2017.The aircraft has been approved for flying service with HARS by both the […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Cold War, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbirds