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
A pleasant surprise for all Warbird enthusiasts in Australia was the recent announcement by Archerfield Qld based Fighter Pilot that they are importing a Supermarine Spitfire XVIe, RAF Serial TE392 from the USA. The aircraft is a single seater and will be based at Archerfield for use as a display aircraft. Until recently the aircraft […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
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
Great progress has been made on the restoration work being carried out by Vintage Fighter Restorations at Scone NSW on two Mk IX Supermarine Spitfires, MH603 and MH415. Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk. IXb MH415 Since our last report in August, the restoration on Spitfire MH415 has made significant progress. The wings were previously dismantled and a […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online visited Albion Park, NSW to view the progress on the Warbird restorations being carried out by Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited, located within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s (HARS) facility by Robert Grienert and the team. We recently reported on the work on a Curtiss P40E and 3 Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft, however, there […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
In 2015 Warbirds Online visited the Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited, located within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s (HARS) modern complex at Albion Park, NSW to view work on the restoration of 3 Lockheed Lightning P-38 aircraft, including 2 static restorations and a third for the HARS collection which will be a flying aircraft. Recently we […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, 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