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Tag: DC-3

DerekB10/03/202511/05/2025

Ticket sales have closed for the DC-3 flights from Essendon to Ballarat 17 & 18 May 2025

The Ballarat branch of the Air Force Association (BAFA) is chartering the Shortstop Jetcharter (SJC) Douglas DC-3 VH-OVM to operate Essendon-Ballarat return flights on...

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1985 Douglas A-4G Skyhawk 872 operated by 805 Squadron Royal Australian Navy crashed at near Beecroft Head, New South Wales, Australia on 17 July 1975. The aircraft collided with the underside of Skyhawk 870 as it pulled up from a pass over the range. Sub-Lieutenant Malcolm McCoy was killed in 872 in the collision, 870 (LCDR Grahame King OC 805 NAS) made emergency landing at Nowra. Sources: ADF-Serials; aviation-safety.net website

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