Junkers F13 – Aviation Historical Society of Australia

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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...

2000 Two Hawker Siddeley HS 748 aircraft flown by the RAN ceased operations on 23 June 2000. The aircraft served with 851 Squadron from August 1973 and assisted with the evacuation of Darwin following cyclone Tracy in December 1974. While serving with 723 Squadron in 1989 they were part of Operation IMMUNE, activated by the Hawke Government to break the commercial pilots strike then in effect. The two HS 748s, operated by just three crews, flew for four months carrying over 10,000 civilian passengers between Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Launceston. Source: navy.gov.au