Skip to content
  • Home
  • AHSA
    • AHSA Inc. Meetings
    • AHSA Inc
      • AGM 2022
    • AHSA (NSW) Inc.
    • AHSA (QLD) Inc.
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclaimer
  • Publications
    • Aviation Heritage
    • Aviation Heritage Web Archive
    • AHSA Newsletter Archive
  • Members
    • Members Only
  • Books
  • Join
  • Links
  • Store
  • Log In
    • My Membership Account
Aviation Historical Society of Australia
  • Home
  • AHSA
    • AHSA Inc. Meetings
    • AHSA Inc
      • AGM 2022
    • AHSA (NSW) Inc.
    • AHSA (QLD) Inc.
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclaimer
  • Publications
    • Aviation Heritage
    • Aviation Heritage Web Archive
    • AHSA Newsletter Archive
  • Members
    • Members Only
  • Books
  • Join
  • Links
  • Store
  • Log In
    • My Membership Account

Category: AHSA Meetings

Melbourne Meetings:

AHSA Inc. holds monthly meetings on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 7.30pm at the Air Force Association, 24 Camberwell Rd, Hawthorn East.

Some members meet casually for dinner from 6.00pm at the Tower Hotel.

Our monthly meetings are also webcast online via Zoom, for members who cannot attend in person.

Meeting details are sent to members each month.
Click on the heading below to view recordings of previous monthly meetings:

AHSA Logo, Southern Cross over Australia
DerekB10/12/202309/03/2024

Melbourne Meeting: 28 February 2024, Ashley Briggs OAM

The Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 28 February 2024 of the AHSA Inc. was held at the RAAF Association meeting room, Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn....
Delicious food cooking on the barbecue at the 2022 AHSA end of year gathering
DerekB10/12/202311/12/2023

AHSA Melbourne Meeting December 2023: Annual Barbeque

The end-of-year AHSA barbecue was held at Moorabbin Air Museum on Sunday 10 December from 10am to 2pm. The weather forecast was not great,...
DerekB26/07/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting July 2023 (Andrew Jackling: Space Weather Forecasting)

Our guest speaker at the 26 July 2023 AHSA Meeting in Melbourne was Andrew Jackling, who presented on the topic “Eyes in the sky:...
DerekB28/06/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting June 2023 (Mark Lax: Tips and Tricks For Researching Our Air Force’s Stories)

The speaker for our combined Friends of Air Force History and Heritage (FAFHH) and Aviation Historical Society of Australia (AHSA) on 28 June 2023...
DerekB24/05/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting May 2023 (Andy Hansen: A Short History of Aerial Photography)

Our guest speaker at the meeting held on 24 May 2023 was Dr Andrew Hansen, who gave a fascinating presentation about the history and...
DerekB26/04/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting April 2023 (Martin James: Battle of the Bismarck Sea)

Our speaker for the meeting held on 26 April 2023 was RAAF Historian Mr Martin James. This meeting was another joint presentation with the...
DerekB22/03/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting March 2023 (Annie Floodin: Boeing History)

Our March 2023 Melbourne meeting featured a presentation by Annie Floodin, a historian from Boeing Historical Services who is currently visiting Australia connecting with...
DerekB22/02/202321/05/2024

AHSA Melbourne Meeting February 2023 (Jeff Maynard: The Lost Records of Sir Hubert Wilkins)

Jeff Maynard was the guest speaker for our 22 February 2023 meeting in Melbourne. Jeff has been researching the life and records of Sir...
DerekB11/12/202212/12/2022

AHSA Melbourne Meeting December 2022: Annual Barbeque

The final Melbourne meeting for the year will be a member's barbecue, to be held at the Moorabbin Air Museum on Sunday 11 December,...
DerekB23/11/202215/12/2022

AHSA Melbourne Meeting November 2022: Annual General Meeting

Our November meeting was the Annual General Meeting of the AHSA Inc, held on 23 November 2022, and was followed by a "Member's Night",...

Posts pagination

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

Welcome to the website of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc.
The AHSA is dedicated to recording and promoting Australian aviation history. We find and tell the stories of how aviation (both civil and military) has contributed to the development of Australia and the experiences of Australian people.
To navigate around the site, select from the menu bar above, click on one of the updates below or choose one of the categories below.

On this day in Australian aviation history:

1896 Sir Lawrence James Wackett was born at Townsville, Queensland on 2 January 1896, to English-born general merchant James Wackett and his Victorian-born wife Alice, nĂ©e Lawrence. Wackett was an air force officer, aircraft designer, aeronautical engineer and aircraft-industry pioneer and has been described as “one of the towering figures in the history of Australian aviation”. Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography
1943 No 467 Squadron (RAAF) conducted its first operation over Europe flying Avro Lancaster bombers on 2 January 1943. The squadron was formed on 7 November 1942 as an Empire Air Training Scheme Article XV squadron at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England. Although a RAAF Squadron, it comprised many Commonwealth aircrew throughout the war and when first formed, comprised over 90% RAF aircrew. On 24 November, the new squadron relocated to RAF Bottesford, Leicestershire, before again relocating a year later to its permanent base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. Initially equipped with Mk I and Mk III Lancaster aircraft, the squadron steadily built up and on 2 January 1943 conducted its first operation over Europe. Five Lancasters were tasked with a ‘gardening’ mine-laying operation in the vicinity of Bayonne and St Jean de Luz. Five days later, the squadron conducted its first bombing operation when the squadron participated in an attack on Essen, Germany. The squadron went on to serve with distinction throughout the war participating in Bomber Commands offensive against Germany. It saw action in the Battle of the Ruhr, Battle of Berlin, the Normandy landings, and strikes against V1 and V2 targets. Flying its last bombing operation in April 1945, 467 SQN was then used for the transportation of liberated Allied POWs to the UK. It was earmarked to form part of the new Tiger Force to operate against Japan and the squadron actually commenced conversion training onto B-24 Liberators for that purpose until the war in the Pacific ended and the Squadron was disbanded on 30 September 1945. Several 467 SQN Lancaster aircraft survived the war with the most notable, S for Sugar, flying 137 operations and now preserved and proudly on display at the Royal Air Force Museum, RAF Hendon. 467 Squadron flew a total of 3,833 sorties during the war but suffered heavily losing 118 aircraft and a total of 760 aircrew of which 284 were Australian. Image of 467 Squadron Lancaster S for Sugar being loaded up for another operation. (Image courtesy of Australian War Memorial Digital Online Collection Copyright expired, public domain). Sources: Australian War Memorial, RAAF Association - SA Division
2006 At about 1040 Eastern Standard Time on 2 January 2006, a Cessna Aircraft Company U206 aircraft, registered VH-UYB, took off from the parachuting centre at Willowbank, Qld on a tandem parachuting flight. On board the aircraft were the pilot and six parachutists. At about 100 ft altitude, the aircraft performed as if the power had been ‘pulled back’. The aircraft was observed to bank right, before it impacted a tree and became submerged in a dam. The aircraft was destroyed and five persons on board received fatal injuries or were drowned. The two survivors received serious injuries. Source: ATSB.gov.au
2018 The first serially-built Pipistrel Alpha Electro took flight in Australia on 2 January 2018. The electric-powered aircraft, which received a Special Certificate of Airworthiness from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in October 2017, took off from Perth’s Jandakot Airport and conducted two circuits around Jandakot. It then went on to complete another seven hours of flying over the following two days before being handed over to Electro.Aero, the aircraft’s operator. Source: pipistrel-aircraft.com

Ansett Flying Boat Services Ballarat Beaufighter Bellanca 28/70 Bill Bedford Boeing Brinsmead Bronco CAC CAC Boomerang CAC Ceres CAC Mustang CAC Wackett Trainer CAC Wirraway CAC Woomera Chartair Cyclone Tracy DAP DC-3 DCA DH.50 DH60 Moth Duigan Memorial Lecture Eric Bonar Essington Lewis Eyre Peninsula Airways GAF Guinea Airways Halestorm JC Fitzmaurice Junkers F13 Lawrence Wackett Macchi Meteor Michael Smith Outlook Percival Proctor Qantas RAF 205 Squadron RFD Winged Target Roy Goon Sid Marshall Smithy (movie) Supermarine Southampton Target towing

Site Categories:

  • AHSA Info
  • AHSA Journal
  • AHSA Meetings
  • AHSA Videos
  • Archives
  • Aviation history books
  • CAC
  • Events
  • Newsletter

Privacy Policy

Contact Us

Home

Copyright © 2025 Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc.