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Australian aviation history digital archive

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AHSA Melbourne Meeting December 2022: Annual Barbeque

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AHSA Melbourne Meeting November 2022: Annual General Meeting

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AHSA Melbourne Meeting October 2022 (Peter Hobbins: The RAAF’s early embrace of flight simulation)

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AHSA Monthly Meeting September 2022 (GPCAPT Grant Kelly: Historic Unrecovered War Casualties)

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AHSA Monthly Meeting August 2022 (Richard de Crespigny AM: The QF32 Experience – Before, During & After)

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Outlook AHSA Newsletter April 2023

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This short book was first published by the AHSA as a supplement to Aviation Heritage...

The Aircraft Projects of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation

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

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Cover - CAC Ceres by Derek Buckmaster

CAC Ceres – Australia’s Heavyweight Cropduster by Derek Buckmaster

8 June 202027 December 2022
Cover - Finished With Engines by Colin Lock

Finished with Engines by Colin Lock

18 June 201517 April 2021
Book cover - Australian Eagles by Kristen Alexander

Australian Eagles by Kristen Alexander

18 June 201522 April 2021

Welcome to the website of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia Inc.
The AHSA is dedicated to recording and promoting Australian aviation history. We find and tell the stories of how aviation (both civil and military) has contributed to the development of Australia and the experiences of Australian people.
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On this day in Australian aviation history:

1931 de Havilland DH.60X Moth VH-UPX (formerly A7-18) operated by the Civil Aviation Branch crashed at Tallarook, south of Seymour, Victoria on 8 June 1931. The pilot, inspector J.H. Ekins, was performing a flight for the Civil Aviation Branch of the Department of Defence. He left Essendon Airport bound for the north, but the aircraft went missing in the Tallarook area, south of Seymour. The wreckage was located ten days later. Source: aviation-safety.net website
1941 No. 3 Squadron RAAF commenced air operations against the French Vichy Forces in Syria on 8 June 1941. The short but very successful campaign waged from 7 June to 11 July 1941. 3 Squadron, equipped with Curtiss Tomahawk aircraft, were integrated into a combined allied force with two RAF Blenheim Squadrons and two RAF Hurricane squadrons. 3 Squadron were employed in a wide variety of air roles including reconnaissance, close air support, counter air, and interdiction. In late June, 450 Squadron ground personnel were brought in to service an RAF Hurricane Squadron. While the campaign was noted for the role of experienced and well known 3 Squadron pilots such as Peter Jeffrey, Peter Turnbull, John Jackson, Alan Rawlinson, and South Australian Rex Wilson, it also saw the introduction of new pilots like Bobby Gibbes, who joined the Squadron on 14 May 1941 and obtained the first of his many aerial victories in the campaign. Gibbes would go on to become one of the highest top-scoring Australian pilots in the two years that he served with 3 Squadron; the Squadron he eventually commanded. Despite flying more than 3,000 sorties, the Vichy air force was defeated by a smaller but better armed combined allied force. The allies initially sought and obtained control of the air freeing up the air assets to conduct operations with the ground forces unhindered. Source: RAAF Association South Australian Division

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