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Outlook AHSA Newsletter February 2026

The AHSA newsletter, Outlook, is back - with a new editor, Jarryd Cripps. The February 2026 edition of Outlook / AHSA News was distributed...

DerekB30/09/202319/11/2023

Aviation Heritage Vol. 54 No. 3 (September 2023) Contents Listing

The latest quarterly AHSA journal – Aviation Heritage – has recently been posted to members. The contents of all articles are listed below: Aviation...

DerekB30/11/202223/11/2024

Australian aviation history digital archive

In its mission to preserve and promote Australia's aviation heritage, the AHSA hosts the following digital archives. Click on the image to go to...

DerekB27/04/202204/06/2023

The Aircraft Projects of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation

This new book by author and AHSA member Joe Vella has just been published (April 2022). Joe began writing this book in 1983 when...

DerekB29/09/202027/12/2022

Australian-built Aircraft and the Industry (Vol 2) by Keith Meggs

The latest book released by author Keith Meggs Volume 2 of this encyclopaedic work (containing only one chapter, being chapter 15, spread across two...

1972 de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou A4-233 of 38 Squadron RAAF crashed into a Papua New Guinea hillside, killing its Australian crew and most of its passengers on 28 August 1972. The aircraft was part of a 38 Squadron detachment operating Caribou aircraft in Port Moresby until PNG’s independence in 1975 and was carrying high school students and their instructors coming home from an Australian Army Cadet camp in Lae. The crash claimed the lives of 25 of the 29 on board. Air force chief Air Marshal Geoff Brown said in a statement “We believe poor weather forced the crew to retrace their route back through the Kudjeru Gap, but the aircraft’s starboard wing impacted with treetops on a ridge line. After three days of searching, rescuers discovered five surviving cadets. However one survivor later died in hospital.” Air Marshal Brown said the Caribou’s crew included Flight Lieutenant Graham Thomas, Pilot Officer Gregory Ebsary and Corporal Gary Power. Captain Robert Loftus, a ground liaison officer with the Australian army, also died in the accident. Source: Department of Defence

1996 Henry K. Millicer, AM, Polish-Australian aircraft designer, pilot and academic, died on 28 August 1996 at the age of 81. His ashes were scattered from the air over the coast near his home at Anglesea, Victoria, off the Great Ocean Road. He was survived by a son, Richard Maciej, and two daughters, the author Joanna Millicer Hempel, and Helen Millicer, and eight grandchildren. Source: Job, Macarthur and Wilson, Stewart (March 1983), "Henry Millicer and Victa", Made in Australia and NZ; Wikipedia