On 22 May, HARS members removed the Goblin engine from Vampire A79-637 as part of the recently renewed restoration activities on that wonderful de Havilland aeroplane with its antecedents at the very beginning of the Jet era of aviation. Work on removing the engine began on 21 May, with Vampire team members ensuring that all the necessary disconnections had been [...]
HARS member, Ray Ball, celebrated his 80th Birthday last week amongst friends and HARS colleagues. You can find ray amongst running guided tours with members of the general public and we look forward to seeing Ray up and about for many years to come. Happy 80th Birthday Ray from everyone at HARS!
About 120 kids and their parents turned up today and enjoyed a day of fun filled activities at HARS. The Illawarra’s largest event aimed at young children aged 0-5 years is now on! KidsFest Shellharbour is a week long festival running from 10 to16 May 2009. KidsFest is an activity of Communities for Children Shellharbour which is funded by the [...]
A recent addition to the collection at HARS is the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-28 Ceres, an adaption of the CA-16 Wirraway, an advanced training aircraft used in WWII by the RAAF. Owned by the late Cliff Kearney of Blayney Air Farmers and recently acquired by HARS member Bill Smith as a HARS restoration project. With the airframe now re-assembled, the Ceres is [...]
HARS members today were hard at work re-installing the rudder on 851, the HARS Grumman S-2G Tracker. Project Leader, Brian Kelly, Bill Smith and Mike Delahunty all on hand to help make it possible. Brian and his group are working hard to restore 851, with the long-term goal of possibly seeing it return to the sky again.
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