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Tag: CAC Wirraway

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...
DerekB16/09/202027/12/2022

AHSA Monthly Meeting 16 Sep 2020 (Derek Buckmaster: The Wirraway “Newspaper War”)

Derek Buckmaster gave a presentation on The Wirraway "Newspaper War". The AHSA September monthly meeting was held online via Zoom. A recording of the...
Cover - CAC Ceres by Derek Buckmaster
DerekB08/06/202027/12/2022

CAC Ceres – Australia’s Heavyweight Cropduster by Derek Buckmaster

The Ceres agricultural aircraft was produced by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) in Australia from 1959 to 1963. A total of only 20 airframes were...

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1943 Lockheed Hudson A16-32 of 1 OTU RAAF went missing over Bass Strait on 6 July 1943. The aircraft took off from East Sale at 1944 hours to carry out practice D.R. 9. This practice was a night navigation exercise from Base - Flinders - Currie - Hogan Group - Base. The aircraft was on wireless silence and failed to return. The maximum endurance of the aircraft was 7 hours. The aircraft failed to return and all searches proved negative. The crew were listed as missing. They included PLTOFF John James Bowman Serv#410622 (pilot), PLTOFF Alan Joseph Malone Serv#426128 (Nav B), PLTOFF Harry Robert Alfred Guymer Serv#418943(WAG), PLTOFF Alexander Frederick McDonald (Serv3418863 WAG), and PLTOFF John Alexander Buchanan Serv#419453 (air gunner). Sources: ADF-Serials; aviation-safety.net website

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