Warbirds Online presents the latest update on the CAC Boomerang restorations being undertaken by Greg Batts of Combat Aircraft Constructions at Archerfield, Queensland. We last reported on progress on the Boomerangs in August 2016 and since then there is much progess to reveal. On Saturday 25th of March 2017 Greg held an open day at his new […]
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Warbirds Online had the opportunity to view the progress on the restoration of DHC4 Caribou A4-228 at Caboolture with the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre Queensland. Once again amazing progress has been made since the last report. The Caribou has had a phenomenal amount of work completed on it including detail electrical, hydraulic and control cable […]
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Today we share an update on the refurbishment taking place on CA-18 Mk.21 Mustang A68-110 VH-MFT at Caboolture Qld. Warbirds Online visited the ongoing refurbishment of this aircraft during a workshop open day over the 25 and 26th of March 2017. Since our last visit much more of the aircraft has been dismantled including the […]
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Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF serial ET433) was the second of two P40 aircraft acquired by the late Col Pay. The first being P40E Hawk 87A-3 c/n 15133 AK752 / VH-KTH. Upon the sale of VH-KTH in 1994, P-40E 41-25109 was acquired from Mike Subritzky, Auckland-Dairy Flat, New Zealand (NZ) who had owned the aircraft since 1991. […]
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Warbirds Online continues to report on the work being carried out by Vintage Fighter Restorations at Scone NSW on two very historic Supermarine Spitfires, both of which have an excellent WWll provenance, Supermarine Spitfire IX MH 603 and Supermarine Spitfire MH415. Spitfire IX MH 603 Since our last report more progress has been made on […]
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Australia is home to a very unique Curtiss P40 aircraft – the only flying genuine P40F Merlin engine derivative of the famous P40 Hawk series of fighters. Owned and operated by Judy Pay of Tyabb Victoria the aircraft is P-40F-1-CU “Pee Wee” Serial Number 41-14112 Nose 106, built by Curtiss in Buffalo, New York during […]
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Today we share an update on our previous report on the refurbishment taking place on CA-18 Mk.21 Mustang A68-110 VH-MFT at Caboolture Qld. We were recently on hand to photograph the removal of the fuselage from the wing structure which is a major operation for any Mustang as the wings are a one piece assembly […]
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Warbirds Online continues our series on preserved CAC Wirraway aircraft, with A20-652, a CA-16, production number 1104, preserved at the Queensland Air Museum (QAM) at Caloundra Qld. This aircraft was delivered to the RAAF No 1 Air Depot from Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation on 04/07/44 and was allocated to the Pilot Test Training Flight on 06/07/44. […]
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