https://australianaviation.com.au Australia's Leading News Source in Aviation Mon, 05 Feb 2024 06:14:50 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 https://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-AAV0003_AustraliaAviation_Logo_Reversed-1-1.jpg https://australianaviation.com.au 32 32 https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/12/an-absolute-legacy-southern-cross-replica-returns-to-the-skies/ Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:29:25 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1363554 The plane, which has been painstakingly restored by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) over the past 12 years, took off shortly after 10:30am at Shellharbour Airport and flew for roughly 15 minutes before making a successful landing.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/12/southern-cross-replica-to-fly-again-in-public-after-two-decades/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 01:03:33 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1363127 The demonstration flight will take off from HARS Aviation Museum at Shellharbour Airport at 10:30am on Friday. The plane, dubbed the largest “close replica” aircraft in the world, has been restored by HARS over the past 12 years since the society purchased it in 2010.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/04/raaf-reservists-restore-neglected-caribou/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/04/raaf-reservists-restore-neglected-caribou/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2022 04:29:18 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=108454 Warrant Officer Mike Downs led the team that removed old paint from A4-236, which had degraded to a “sub-standard state”. It will now be displayed at Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre. ]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/04/raaf-reservists-restore-neglected-caribou/feed/ 1 https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/see-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-taxi-this-weekend/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:38:17 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=104275 Visitors will be welcome to come and see the rebuilt replica of Sir Charles Kingsford Smiths' Southern Cross II aircraft taxi down the tarmac at the HARS Aviation Museum this weekend, as part of the museum's January Tarmac Days.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-watch-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-airborne-in-1990/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-watch-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-airborne-in-1990/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:00:07 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=104162 Reader Mike Millett shares this archive footage of a replica of the first aircraft to fly from America to Australia before it was damaged 19 years ago. It's set to fly again soon after being restored at HARS. ]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-watch-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-airborne-in-1990/feed/ 4 https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-taxis-again/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-taxis-again/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:25:25 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=104085 A rebuilt replica of the aircraft that completed the first flight from America to Australia has made its first powered taxi run at HARS Aviation Museum.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/video-charles-kingsford-smiths-southern-cross-taxis-again/feed/ 2 https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/11/hars-to-display-50-heritage-aircraft-at-wings-of-illawarra/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:14:28 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=102177 HARS Aviation Museum will be exhibiting various types of Australian aircraft, including the Super Constellation “Connie”, which arrived in Australia in 1991 for restoration, former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Neptune 273, ordered by Australia in 1951, and former Vietnam War RAAF Caribou, first ordered in 1963 to replace its existing Dakota aircraft.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/09/cac-wirraway-rescued-from-lake-corangamite-after-70-years/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:34:23 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=99889 Aviation enthusiast Rod Knights has completed his 12-year mission to recover A20-714, which ditched in the lake during a low training flyover in 1950. ]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/06/lancaster-flown-by-raaf-during-wwii-painstakingly-disassembled/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/06/lancaster-flown-by-raaf-during-wwii-painstakingly-disassembled/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:17:07 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=98079 ‘G for George’, flown exclusively by No. 460 Squadron over the skies of Germany, will be reassembled and transferred to a new area of the Australian War Memorial. ]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/06/lancaster-flown-by-raaf-during-wwii-painstakingly-disassembled/feed/ 3 https://australianaviation.com.au/2020/12/dc-3-to-fly-over-sydney-harbour-on-thursday/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2020/12/dc-3-to-fly-over-sydney-harbour-on-thursday/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2020 02:34:02 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=88750 HARS Aviation Museum is set to fly its Douglas C47/DC3 over Sydney Harbour on Thursday to mark 85 years since the aircraft’s first flight.]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2020/12/dc-3-to-fly-over-sydney-harbour-on-thursday/feed/ 9