Albion Park

HARS Aviation Museum Albion Park

HARS Aviation Museum is a world-class aviation museum located at Shellharbour Airport in the beautiful Illawarra Region of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 100 km South of Sydney.  The airport is nestled in a basin between the Tasman Sea (Pacific Ocean) and the hills of Australia’s Great Dividing Range.

The museum has an extensive collection of aircraft, and other aviation memorabilia, that is significant to Australia’s aviation heritage.

The museum’s mission is:

To recover, and where possible restore to flying condition, aircraft or types of aircraft that have played a significant part in Australian Aviation History both in the Civil and Military arenas.

Consequently many of the aircraft have been restored to flying condition, and will be maintained in such condition for as long as possible.

How To Get Here

By Road from Sydney

We are approximately 90 km South of Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport – about one and a quarter hours drive.  Take the Princes Highway and M1 South.  After Heathcote you will have freeway driving conditions.

At the bottom of the Mt Ousley descent you have about 20 km to go.  Look for the Albion Park Rail exit.  It is well signposted showing access to the airport, tourism signs for HARS Aviation Museum, and a beautiful sign featuring our Lockheed Super Constellation.  About 1 km past the motorway exit you go past a large round-about and be looking right down the runway.  After about another 1 km turn right at the traffic lights and you have arrived.

By Rail from Sydney

There is an hourly train from Sydney to Albion Park / Albion Park Rail.  The journey takes about two hours and is most enjoyable.   From Albion Park Station, turn West, cross the highway at the lights and follow the footpath around the airport.  You can see HARS from the highway – it is about a 10–15 min easy walk.

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Check the “South Coast Line”.  Most trains run through from Bondi Junction but some start at “Central”.  You can also use the train from Sydney Airport, though there is a platform fee.  Change at Wolli Creek.

Significant points on the journey are “Stanwell Park” where Lawrence Hargrave did his aeronautical experiments (Australia’s Kitty Hawk) and Coalcliff, where coal was first found shortly after British settlement.

You will need to purchase an Opal card if you do not already have one, at the start of your journey or use your credit card at the gates to “tap on” and “tap off”.