Wings Over Illawarra held on Sunday 6th May 2012 at Illawarra Regional Airport was attended by a huge crowd and was presented by Shellharbour Council, and supported by HARS, the SAAA and the Illawarra Light Rail Museum. We proudly acknowledge our sponsors who included the Shell company of Australia, QBE Insurance Ltd, Westonprint, Microsolve, Destination NSW, Shellharbour Tourism, 96.5 Wave FM, Prime 7 television, the [...]
During the lead up to Wings Over Illawarra , the HARS Catalina performed spectacular touch and go water landings on Lake Illawarra on Thursday 3rd May. Large and appreciative crowds of people watched the landings from the Lake foreshores and the event featured on WIN news the same night.
Aircraft from the HARS fleet performed flypasts at ANZAC day marches in Shellharbour, Kiama Wollongong and the main march in Sydney this year. The three aircraft which displayed in line astern formation at the Sydney march were our “Black Cat” Catalina VH PBZ, ex WW2 RAAF C47 Dakota VH EAF and ex RAAF Caribou A4-210 VH VBA . For the Illawarra flypasts they were joined [...]
On Saturday 14 April our Super Constellation, Connie, completed a round trip members flight from Wollongong to overfly Lord Howe Island and return. The trip took 5 1/2 hours there and back including 1/2 hour around the Island and Balls Pyramid. Our photo by HARS member Dick Simpson shows Connie preparing for take off on the day at our Illawarra [...]
Our Lockheed Super Constellation airliner, Connie, flew to the NSW South Coast restort town of Merimbula on Saturday 7th April as part of the town’s Centenary Celebrations. Connie was open to the public both on Saturday, and again on Sunday 8th, and returned to Albion Park on the Sunday afternoon.
Following a lengthy recovery, reassembly and restoration, our English Electric Canberra trainer is now on public display in our museum. Come visit us and sit in the restored cockpit.
Wings Over Illawarra held on Sunday 6th May 2012 at Illawarra Regional Airport was...
During the lead up to Wings Over Illawarra , the HARS Catalina performed spectacular...
Aircraft from the HARS fleet performed flypasts at ANZAC day marches in Shellharbour,...
On Saturday 14 April our Super Constellation, Connie, completed a round trip members...
Our Lockheed Super Constellation airliner, Connie, flew to the NSW South Coast restort...
Following a lengthy recovery, reassembly and restoration, our English Electric Canberra...
There are no posts in this category
HARS members have been hard at work continuing the detailed and difficult task of rebuilding and installing the Catalina mid-section blisters....
On 22 May, HARS members removed the Goblin engine from Vampire A79-637 as part of the recently renewed restoration activities on that wonderful...
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....
There are no posts in this category
Designed by
Copyright © 2012 Theme Demo. All rights reserved.
