RAAF Base Williamtown in the Port Stephens area to the north of Newcastle, NSW has been the largest and most significant operational and training base for the RAAF Fighter fleet since WWII. During WWII the base supported very large fleets of Fighters and training aircraft to supply crews for the fight in the Pacific. Post […]
Fighter Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbirds
The Warbird population at Scone, NSW continues to grow with the recent announcement that another Spitfire MH415 is soon to arrive there from the USA where it had been in storage for many years as part of the legendary ‘Connie’ Edwards collection in Texas. The aircraft is owned by Warbirds Flight Club, a newly formed […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online hasn’t visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Nowra, NSW for some years, in fact 30 years! So we took the opportunity to visit the site on our recent trip to NSW. Many years ago, the Museum was largely an outdoors display, however over the decades a roof was added and finally a […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Helicopters, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online regularly visits the Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited facility at Albion Park NSW and we have been watching the progress being made on several Bristol Beaufighter cockpits being constructed as museum display items. These cockpits are restored for trading purposes and to produce exhibits for Museums seeking to display a significant item related to […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
At the start of the year Warbirds Online visited the Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited, located within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s (HARS) modern complex at Albion Park, NSW. We were very pleased to see the work being undertaken on three Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters in the workshop. In the past month, we again visited the […]
Fighter Aircraft, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
The good news from The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) at Albion Park NSW is that one of their two Douglas C-47B-30-DK Dakota aircraft, Ex RAAF A65-95, Civil Registration VH-EAE is being refurbished to its RAAF World War II colors and configuration. At the time of our visit in July 2015 the C-47 was being […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
One of the most bizarre victories of the air war in WWI was accomplished by an Australian, George Ingle Finch, who was not a pilot or even in the Australian Armed Forces. George Ingle Finch was born in Orange NSW in 1888 and was a chemist and Alpine climber who was also the putative father […]
WW1 aircraft