President Bob De La Hunty led the HARS Caribou engineering inspection team to Oakey Queensland just recently. The team were impressed by the quality of the aircraft up for tender and all fired with a desire to acquire such a historically significant aircraft. The Caribou is the quintessential representative aircraft for the Vietnam era. President Bob De La Hunty commented that [...]
HARS was the abuzz with excitement when film production company Bee Line Productions chose HARS for the filming of a promotional video for Vodaphone. Star of the shoot was Rochelle Austin, one of Australia’s leading actresses. Star struck bystanders watched as the starlet and ”whats his name” jumped from the DC3 in simulated parachute jumps. The rest of the flight to earth [...]
Six years ago Harvard VH-SFY unceremoniously suffered power failure on take off at Point Cook, Victoria, Operated as part of the RAAF Museums Historic Flight the aircraft was assessed by RAAF Museum engineering staff as Cat 5 (write-off) and placed into Museum stores at RAAF Laverton. A major departure of the undercarriage from the wing center section and subsequent spar [...]
Friday November 26th saw the Southern Cross wing leave its display area in the HARS Museum Building and head down to a new restoration area at the far end of the HARS Super Hangar complex. Ten HARS members gathered to push and pull the 60ft long wing down the taxiway. Passing aircraft chatter included such cute comments as; “VH-USU you [...]
The 19th of November 2010 will mark the 20th anniversary of the loss of FLTLT R. Page and 76 Squadron’s Macchi A7-076. In a joint partnership between 76 Squadron RAAF and HARS, Macchi A7-052 has been delivered to Albion Park where the members of the HARS Macchi A7-025 restoration team have commenced its external refurbishment. The aircraft will be painted [...]
Engineering work and restoration of the HARS Douglas C54/DC4 is now well underway. The Douglas was build in 1944 and as you would expect – for a 66 year old aircraft – it needs some tender love and care. The historic four engined airliner was donated to HARS in June of 2008, having not flown for the last 6 years [...]
President Bob De La Hunty led the HARS Caribou engineering inspection team to Oakey...
HARS was the abuzz with excitement when film production company Bee Line Productions...
Six years ago Harvard VH-SFY unceremoniously suffered power failure on take off...
Friday November 26th saw the Southern Cross wing leave its display area in the HARS...
The 19th of November 2010 will mark the 20th anniversary of the loss of FLTLT R....
Engineering work and restoration of the HARS Douglas C54/DC4 is now well underway....
Following an extensive 10,000 man hour annual inspection, Connie was rolled out Friday, 19th February, ready for her first flight in 6 months....
The HARS Catalina Team have been busy again, this time adding the nose turret and support structure to the aircraft. The Cat will now be able...
Looking like a million dollars following its paint job, the HARS flying Vampire Project continues to move forward with progress on many different...
The Qantas In-flight magazine photographic team were about this week snapping pictures for their next issue. Of particular interest was the...
The HARS recovery team are back out in the field again with the relocation/recovery of the HARS museum’s Canberra T4 Bomber – A84-502....
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