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
Recently Warbirds Online visited Scone NSW where Pay’s Helicopters has for a second year brought a modified Sikorski UH-60A Blackhawk, N5630J into the country to work through the Australian Bushfire season. The aircraft is owned by USA based company Timberline Helicopters and is one of 3 of the type they currently have in their fleet. […]
Helicopters, 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
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
Warbirds Online continues our series on Australian Flying Corps (AFC) aircraft of WWI and today we feature the Airco DH.5 Scout of 1916. This Scout (Fighter) aircraft was designed by the famous Captain Geoffrey de Havilland and was unique in that the top wing of the biplane was moved to the rear of the lower wing […]
AFC Aircraft, Australian Flying Corps, Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
Original WWI Aircraft are very rare in collections of Warbirds around the world and one of the rarest of these is an original Bristol M.1C Scout. Even more significant is the association of the aircraft with a famous Australian, Capt. Harry Butler RFC. This particular aircraft is Serial Number C5001, one of just 125 operational […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
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
Another of the real gems housed in the Australian War Memorial collection is one of just seven remaining original WWI manufactured, Royal Aircraft Factory designed SE.5a aircraft. The aircraft is currently displayed in the in the exhibition of WWI Aviation at the AWM. The aircraft is finished in the colors of D6950 2SQN AFC which […]
Australian Flying Corps, Australian Warbirds, Fighter Aircraft, Historic Aircraft, WW1 aircraft