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Category: AHSA Videos

DerekB25/05/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 25 May 2022 (WGCDR Philip Beanland: RAAF 100 Squadron)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 25 May 2022, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...
DerekB27/04/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 27 April 2022 (Leigh Edmonds: Norman Brearly and West Australian Airways)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 27 April 2022 was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting room in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to...
DerekB23/03/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 March 2022 (WGCDR Mathew Shelley: The RAAF Museum and the New Vision For the Museum’s Future)

Our March 2022 Melbourne meeting, held in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at the RAAF...
DerekB23/02/202208/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 23 February 2022 (Michael Smith: Commemorative Flight From London to Darwin, 2019)

Our February 2022 Melbourne meeting, was held in person at the RAAF Association meeting rooms in Hawthorn and also “broadcast” to interstate members via...
DerekB24/11/202108/11/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 24 November 2021 (Lance Halvorson: RAAF Strike Aircraft 1953-2010)

Our Melbourne monthly meeting on 24 November 2021, in collaboration with the Friends of Air Force History and Heritage, was held in person at...

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On this day in Australian aviation history:

1944 Bristol Beaufighter Mk XIc A19-143 operated by 31 (City of Wagga Wagga) Squadron RAAF crashed at Pell Field, Northern Territory on 21 July 1944. The aircraft crashed on take-off on its second flight after a double engine change. It was a ferry flight but starboard engine failed. Pilot FLTLT Archie Campbell Thompson (400400) was killed. Navigator FLTSGT I Hickson was seriously injured, FLGOFF D.B.F. Strachan was slightly injured. Sources: ADF-Serials; aviation-safety.net website
1950 A Douglas C-47 Dakota of No 38 Squadron RAAF flew the first RAAF mission in support of Operation Firedog (the RAF name for the air campaign during the Malayan Emergency) on 21 July 1950, completing a routine courier run to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Taiping. The RAAF involvement came after the British Government asked Australia for a direct contribution of air units to help in defeating a Communist-led insurgency which had broken out in Malaya 22 months earlier. Australia agreed on 19 May 1950 to send a squadron of eight C-47 Dakota transports, and a month later No 38 Squadron arrived at Changi airfield on Singapore Island. Source: 38 Squadron Association

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