Mike Whitney, the popular host of Sydney Weekender program visited HARS with his production team on Wednesday 21 March during the lead up to Wings Over Illawarra 12. HARS flew our De Havilland Drover, C47 Dakota and Catalina Flying Boat for the occasion in what was a successful day for […]
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After nearly 12 months of routine maintenance and continuing restoration, the HARS PBY6A Catalina moved from the back of hangar 3 into the light once more, ready to fly again. The left and right leading edges of the main wing were removed, inspected, minor repairs carried out and then replaced on […]
Work to rebuild the wing of the flying replica of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s Fokker F7/3M Southern Cross will now proceed after the structure passed a vital deflection test. The wing was recently inverted and mounted in a heavy steel support, and then loaded with bricks supplied by local company M J Rowles. Seen in […]