Vintage Aviation News

HARS Wirraway Restoration Update

June 13, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 2

By Phil Buckley A rare CAC Wirraway CA-3 Mark II is under rebuild within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s workshops at Albion Park Airport, south of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. As most readers will know, […]

Kyneton Airshow – Spread Your Wings

May 4, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

Photography & Words by Matt Savage There was a sense of trepidation as April 23, 2017 dawned a grey and foggy day in Kyneton, a small country town nestled in the Macedon Ranges an hour […]

Werribee B-24 Rising-Up, Down-Under

February 13, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 4

By Austin Hancock – From a report of Phil Buckley and photos by Dave Miller. Werribee, AUS – B-24 Liberator A72-176 is continuing to progress nicely through a static-display restoration. Since our last update, many […]

Australian War Memorial Treloar Annex Open Day

February 3, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 3

By Phil Buckley Each September the Australian War Memorial in Canberra opens its Treloar storage annex at Mitchell, to the general public with the event being called “Big Things in Store”. The annex stores thousands […]

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Reevers Warbirds’s B-25 “Lucky Lady” Update

January 30, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 8

By Phil Buckley Reevers Warbirds, in Adelaide, Australia, moved its NAA B-25J Mitchell s/n 44-31508 from its long term storage in Port Adelaide to a new secure hangar at Parafield Airport in northern Adelaide over […]

Australian Government Brings in New Regulations for Warbirds

November 7, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

As reported by Australian Aviation.com.au on Friday, Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester announced ex-military, replica ex-military and certain historic aircraft would be covered under a new Part 132 of the Civil Aviation […]