• Caribou Hunting

    Caribou Hunting

    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 [...]

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  • Catalina Rhinoplasty

    Catalina Rhinoplasty

    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 to sport a “pair of 50′s” up front. (Plastic replicas of course) The nose support structure was donated to HARS by the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona. A new  “unused” turret was acquired from [...]

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  • Vampire Gets New Paint

    Vampire Gets New Paint

    Looking like a million dollars following its paint job, the HARS flying Vampire Project continues to move forward with progress on many different fronts. Project Leader Terry Wilson continues to coordinate the return to flight and has called on the service of a large variety of trades and skills with HARS  to keep the project moving. An engine clean room is [...]

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  • HARS DC4 Home and on Display

    The HARS DC4 completed a successful ferry flight on Monday the 21st December 2009, arriving on time to its new home in Albion Park, NSW.  HARS members and visitors were in attendance for the arrival.  The DC4 adds to the HARS collection a truly unique and interesting part of Australia’s aviation history.

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  • HARS C54 (DC4) to Arrive at HARS 5:00PM, Monday 21st Dec 2009

    HARS C54 (DC4) to Arrive at HARS 5:00PM, Monday 21st Dec 2009

    Following an exhaustive one and a half year interstate restoration effort, the HARS C54 is now ready for its flight to its new home at Illawarra Regional Airport, one hour south of Sydney. HARS members have invested over 5,000 volunteer man hours and their own personal resources, to travel to Archerfield to prepare this aircraft for its first flight since [...]

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