Air Show Report
Parkes Aero Spectacular – Air Show Report
Not every air show has to be big and loud to be spectacular. It is often the smaller, more intimate air shows which can be the real gems of the display season. Our long time […]
Phil Buckley
Aviation Museum News
The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum – An Overview
The RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum – An Overview by Phil Buckley The Aviation Heritage Museum, maintained by the Royal Australian Air Force Association at Bull Creek near Perth in Western Australia, has an important collection of […]
Aircraft Restoration
Douglas A-26 Invader Movements Downunder
Reevers Warbirds has commenced the move of their Douglas A-26C Invader from Archerfield Airport in Brisbane, Queensland to her new home at Parafield Airport in Adelaide, South Australia. This Invader once flew with the US Army […]
Aircraft Restoration
Australian Airspeed Oxford – Project Update
Update on the B-24 Liberator Restoration Fund’s Airspeed Oxford Replica Report Collated by Phil Buckley with much thanks to Judy Gilbert and the B-24 Liberator team. Most readers will have heard about the former Royal Australian Air […]
Aircraft Restoration
All Boomerangs Come Back: An Australian Fighter’s Gradual Return
The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation at Fisherman’s Bend near Melbourne, Australia is well known for producing a number of aircraft types during and just after WWII based upon original designs from North American Aviation. One of their […]
Air Show Report
Wings Over Illawarra Airshow Report
By Phil Buckley The annual Wings Over Illawarra Air Show took place over the weekend of May 6th/7th, 2017 at Albion Park Airport near Sydney, Australia. Over 30,000 people attended, and a lot of attention focused on the warbird scene, due […]
Aircraft Restoration
Werribee B-24 Rising-Up, Down-Under
By Austin Hancock – From a report of Phil Buckley and photos by Dave Miller. Werribee, AUS – B-24 Liberator A72-176 is continuing to progress nicely through a static-display restoration. Since our last update, many […]
AUSSIE/KIWI News
Australian War Memorial Treloar Annex Open Day
By Phil Buckley Each September the Australian War Memorial in Canberra opens its Treloar storage annex at Mitchell, to the general public with the event being called “Big Things in Store”. The annex stores thousands […]
AUSSIE/KIWI News
Reevers Warbirds’s B-25 “Lucky Lady” Update
By Phil Buckley Reevers Warbirds, in Adelaide, Australia, moved its NAA B-25J Mitchell s/n 44-31508 from its long term storage in Port Adelaide to a new secure hangar at Parafield Airport in northern Adelaide over […]
Aircraft Restoration
Downunder PBY – Restoration Report from Rathmines, Australia
A couple of years ago, our intrepid Antipodean reporter, Phil Buckley, wrote a story for us about a dedicated team restoring a tired and weatherbeaten PBY Catalina in Rathmines, Australia. Rathmines Park, nestled beside Lake Macquarie in […]