De Havilland’s famous DH 82A Tiger Moth could trace a direct line of descent from the equally famous de Havilland DH 60 Gipsy Moth of 1925 which is regarded as having made possible worldwide development of the flying club movement. The Tiger Moth prototype was derived from the de Havilland DH 60 Gipsy Moth. It was powered by a de Havilland [...]
The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society owns and operates two Caribou aircraft. Tail number 210 is currently airworthy and work is in progress to bring tail number 234 up to the same standard.
The Drover was designed and built in the late 1940s by de Havilland at Bankstown, NSW. Only 20 of this type were built with the first having its maiden flight in 1948. Operators of this type were Qantas and TAA as passenger and cargo aircraft and the Department of Health. However their most renowned role was with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, serving [...]
This aircraft is one of two Lockheed Neptune P2V-7s operated by the Society. P2V-7 Neptune A89-273 (later designated SP-2H) was built at Lockheed’s Burbank plant in California, USA. The manufacturers serial number was No. 7273. Bauer No. 149,073, being delivered to the RAAF and arriving in Townsville on the 10 March 1962. It was allocated to10 Squadron, which then operated out of Townsville, [...]
A65-94 was built in Oklahoma city as a C-47B-30-DK and was delivered to the USAF on 20 April 1945 registered as 44-76774. The aircraft was then delivered to the RAAF on 2 May 1945 as A65-94 with a domestic registration of ‘VH-RFK’ and served in 38, 36 and then 34 Squadrons. In 34 Squadron A65-94 was used as a VIP [...]
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