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A23-0**
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Underside view of an RAAF Roulettes Pilatus PC-9A (A23-0**) 'Card 5' Formation during a precision flying display at Avalon YMAV on 22Feb1997. Photo taken during the 1997 Avalon International Air Show. [I previously photographed a Roulettes ‘Card 5’ formation – featuring Macchi MB326H (CAC CA-30) aircraft A7-090, at the Easter Airshow at Wangaratta YWGT Victoria on 29Mar1986.]
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Ex 10 SQN aircraft delivered to the RAAF in 1978 and retired on June 2018. Now on display at the Darwin Aviation Museum in the Northern Territory.
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Close cropped rear Portside view of RAAF 33 Squadron B707-338C(KC) A20-624 MSN 19624 (in original white /blue cheatline livery) airborne from Rwy 18 (with wheels retracting) at Avalon YMAV during Oct 1992. The aircraft is fitted with two Flight Refuelling Mk32B Air to Air Refuelling (AAR) pods (out of frame). Photo taken during the 1992 Inaugural Avalon International Air Show. (Note camera housing under rear fuselage, which transmits images of refuelling activity to the AAR controller in the flight deck.)
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Close cropped wide-angle rear view of RAAF B707-338C(KC) A20-624 MSN 19624 (in original white livery) on static display at Avalon YMAV on 21Feb1997. The aircraft is fitted with two Flight Refuelling Mk32B Air to Air Refuelling (AAR) pods. Photo taken during the 1997 Avalon International Air Show. This Tanker demonstrated (simulated) AAR to the crowd, with two Hornets following the drogues on this day. The crowd was disappointed that the Hornets weren't 'Hooked Up!'
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A21-103
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0215/ATF103
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The first Australian built Hornet. Delivered to the RAAF 30/04/1985 and put into service with 2 OCU. Now preserved at the Darwin Air Museum in the Northern Territory.
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All that is left of an RAAF Liberator that crash landed in poor weather at Fenton Airfield in the Northern Territory on February 3, 1945. It was built by Consolidated at San Diego with the constructors number 5396 and delivered to the USAAF as B-24L-5-CO
Liberator serial number 44-41460. Assigned to the RAAF as Liberator A72-88 with 7 OTU and then 24 SQN. On display at the Darwin Air Museum, NT.
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Australia
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Close cropped front Stbd view of RAAF B707-338C(KC) A20-624 MSN 19624 (in original white livery with blue fuselage cheatline) taxying on Rwy 36 at Avalon YMAV on 21Feb1997. The aircraft is fitted with two Flight Refuelling Mk32B Air to Air Refuelling (AAR) pods. Photo taken during the 1997 Avalon International Air Show.
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A21-11
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0334/AF011
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Low res A2A close-cropped front Stbd view of RAAF 3 Squadron F/A-18A Hornet A21-11 0334/AF011, taken late afternoon from 33 Sqn B707-338C(KC) Tanker A20-623 after being modified for Tanker Role by Israel Aircraft Industries staff at the HDH Hangar at Tullamarine. The Portside Mk32B AAR drogue is extended from the B707, orbiting over Wagga NSW during a 5.6 hour Post-Mod Test Flight and test AAR of Hornet A21-11 on 19May1992. The Hornet is hooked up for the second test AAR on A20-623.
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Norway
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Arriving on runway 34L. [Nikon D7100 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII]
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Delivered to the RAAF on 4/12/1956 to 78 Wing. It was stationed at RAAF Butterworth, Malaya on 30/10/1959. Later it would serve with 79 SQN at Ubon, Thailand between 1962 and 1968. To 77 SQN on 25/19/1967 and then 2 OCU on 2/9/1969. In 1971 it became a Gate Guard at RAAF Williamtown, NSW and is now preserved at the Fighter World museum.
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Delivered to the RAAF on 11/12/2019 in 2 OCU markings.
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Delivered to the RAAF on 26/04/2021 in 77 SQN markings.
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Delivered to 77 SQN RAAF on 11/5/1953. Transferred to RSTT on 2/12/1957 as an instructional airframe. On 14/4/66 it was moved to RAAF Williamtown where it was used as a Gate Guard. Currently on display at Fighter World - RAAF Williamtown.
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77 Squadron F-35A A35-054 with two AIM-9X missiles lands at RAAF Williamtown.
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The last Australian built CAC Sabre delivered to the RAAF on 25/09/1956. Seen here on static display at No.1 Central Ammunition Depot, Kingswood, NSW. Currently held in storage at the Temora Aviation Museum.
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The last Australian built CAC Sabre delivered to the RAAF on 25/09/1956. Seen here on static display at No.1 Central Ammunition Depot, Kingswood, NSW. Currently held in storage at the Temora Aviation Museum.
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Manufactured in 1969 with the US Serial 69-15484 and delivered to the RAAF in June of 1970. It was transferred to Army Aviation in December, 1989 and served with 171 Sqn - 1st Aviation Regiment until 2007. Placed in storage until being delivered to the Caboolture Warplane Museum, Queensland on the 12th of August, 2014.
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Delivered to 12 SQN RAAF in March 1974. In September 1993 it was modified to CH-47D in the United States and returned as A15-106. In April 2015 it was allocated to the RAAF Museum Point Cook, VIC.
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Delivered to 1 AD RAAF on 18/03/1955 and sent to ARDU for high velocity gun installation trials on 22/03/1955. It was modified to Mk. 31 on 30/08/1955. To 81 Wing on 04/03/1963 and then 2 OCU on 08/12/1966. Converted to a fire training aid at Point Cook on 26/03/1974 then on display at RAAF Point Cook until 2014 when it was transferred to RAAF Wagga Wagga to be used as a Gate Guard. In 2018 it was gifted to ANAM at Moorabbin Airport in Victoria.
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Delivered to the RAAF on 17/7/1967 and served with 2 OCU, 3 SQN Butterworth, Malaysia and 77 SQN Williamtown, NSW. Sold to the Pakistan Airforce in November 1990.
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A21-52
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0782/AF052
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Close-cropped rear view of RAAF 3 Squadron McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet A21-52 MSN 0782/AF052 on static display at Avalon YMAV on 17Feb1999. (Note light coloured turbine blades in the Stbd engine.) The occasion was the 1999 Avalon International Airshow. RAAF Hornets, including A21-52, were powered by two General Electric F-404 engines (17,700 lbf thrust each) which propelled the aircraft to speeds up to Mach 1.8. [Two AIM-7 Sparrow AMRAAMs are fuselage - mounted on this aircraft.]