Australian
Aviation Museums and sites containing preserved
aircraft.Australian
Aviation Museums and sites containing preserved
aircraft.Address. Lionel St & Wirraway Road, Essendon Airport, Victoria, Australia.
Phone. (03) 9374 3905
Email: cahs@bigpond.com
Postal address: Box 6, 250 English St, Essendon Airport, Victoria 3041
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Airways Museum & Civil Aviation Historical Society.
This Museum is now closed
It was located near Wangaratta, Victoria at Wangaratta Airport, Greta Road, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. 3678.
A museum is currently being planned which will be located at RAAF Amberley, near Ipswich. We will update this list with further details when the museum is built.
Address. Starkie Drive, Bankstown Airport, New South Wales.
Phone:(02)9791 3088. Fax:(02)9791 3197.
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Address. 2 Murray Street Darling Harbour NSW 2009, Postal address: GPO Box 5131 Sydney NSW 1042 Australia.
Telephone 61 2 9298 3777 fax 61 2 9298 3780. E-mail:lshaw@anmm.gov.au (Navy Curator)
This museum mainly concentrates on ships, however it does also cover maritime aviation and has a Westland Wessex helicopter in its collection.
Australian National Maritime Museum
Address. Top of Anzac Parade, Campbell, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Phone. (02)6243 4211.
Fax (02)6243 4325.
The Australian War Memorial holds an extensive collection of military artifacts and has extensive displays. Included in this collection is an aircraft hall with displays ranging from WWI up to the present day.
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Address. R.A.N. Air Station Albatross, Nowra, New South Wales.
Phone. (02)4421 1920.
Australias's Museum of Flight is located near the entrance to H.M.A.S. Albatros, the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air rms home base. The museum originally started out as the Australian Naval Aviation Museum and holds an extensive collection of aircraft and artifacts covering the history of Australian Naval Aviation. In more recent years a change of policy and name saw the museum expand its area of interest to encompass all Australian aviation history. Many of the aircraft are displayed under cover in a large purpose built didplay building. The museum also features a restaraunt and open air viewing platform where visitors may look out over the runways and tarmac of the Naval Air Station.
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Australian Naval Aviation Museum (unofficial)
Address: Geelong Road, Werribee. Phone (03)5956 7952 (Colin Grey).
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Address. Ballarat Aerodrome, Sunraysia Highway, Ballarat, Victoria.
Phone. (03)5339 5016.
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Ballarat Aviation Museum (Aircraft list)
Bendigo Airport, Victoria. C/- Bendigo Aero Club.
Phone and Fax: (03)5443 8395.
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Address. Vincent Street, Beverley, Western Australia.
Phone. (Beverley Tourist Bureau) (08)9646 1555.
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Beverley Community Development Association.
Address. Cnr Young Street and Mount Perry Road, North Bundaberg, Queensland.
Phone. (07)7152 0101
Address. 11 Stewart Street, Narellan, New South Wales.
Phone. (02)9529 4169.
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Catalina and Coral Sea Memorial Museum
Address. Old Airport site, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
Phone. (08)8951 1122.
Aircraft on display include a Drover, Wackett Trainer and others.
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Address. Hangar 52, Anderson Drive, Parafield Airport, South Australia.
Phone. (08) 8258 2277. A/H: (08) 8258 5176. Fax: (08) 8258 1090
Open. Wednesday to Sunday from 10am til 4pm. Also open on public and school holidays.
Aircraft on display include a Mirage, P-38 Lightning, Sabre, Meteor, Jindavik, Seaq Venom, Chipmunk, and Tiger Moth.
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Classic Jets Fighter Museum home page
Address. 557 Stuart Highway, Winnellie, Northern Territory, Australia.
Phone. (08) 947 2145.
Open. 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. seven days a week.
The Aviation Heritage Centre is operated by the Aviation Historical Society of the Northern Territory. The museum has aircraft and memorabilia relating to many events including many of the record breaking flights which occurred in the 20's and 30's, W.W.II and the post war period. Aircraft types held by the museum include the Mirage, B-52, Sabre, Mitchell, Dove, Commander, Wessex Spitfire (Replica) and portions of various other aircraft.
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Australian Aviation Heritage Centre. Dead link! Can anybody help with a new one?
A committee is currently collecting information and items to display in a new memorial to the RAAF Base and units which were located in this town during WWII. We will update this listing when further details are obtained.
Address. Cnr Newell Highway and Camp Road, Dubbo, New South Wales.
Phone. (02)6882 0790.
Address. RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales.
Phone. (02)4928 6184.
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Proposed museum for Griffith, NSW. (as of Jan 2000). We will update this entry when we have more details.
Address. Bundaberg Tourist Information Centre, Cnr Musgrave and Bourbong Streets, Bundaberg.
Phone. (07)7152 2333.
Address. Cnr Young Street and Mount Perry Road, North Bundaberg, Queensland.
Phone. (07)7152 0222.
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Hinkler Memorial Museum Dead link! Anyone got a current one?
Address. Next to the Civic Centre in Broome, Western Australia.
Phone. (08)9192 1202.
The museum was built as a memorial to Captain Horrie Miller who was a founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines. It contains a CAC Wackett Trainer.
This museum was a small one man operation based oout of Hallam, Victoria. The collection consisted of a Dove and various memorabilia. The owner was intending to move overseas. It appears to no longer be in existance.
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International Airliners Museum Dead link.
Address. Off Kapunda Road, 3 km from Greenock, South Australia.
Postal address: PO Box 20, Greenock SA 5360
Phone. (08)8562 8226.
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Lincoln Nitschke's Aviation Museum and Craft Shop
This museum is located at Luskintyre Airfield. I have very little information about this museum so any further information would be most welcome.
This museum is housed in the old RAAF Headquaters building at Mildura, located at 34 Kavav Avenue, Mildura, Victoria 3500.
Phone:(03) 5022 7691 or (03) 5023 1966. (Curator).
Near Melbourne
Address. Moorabbin Airport, Mentone.
Melways map reference 87, G4.
Postal address. P.O. Box 242, Mentone, Victoria, Australia. 3194.
Phone. (03) 9580 7752.
Moorabbin Air Museum is operated by the Australian Aircraft Restoration Group and has been open to the public at its current site at Moorabbin Airport (Harry Hawker Airport) since the early 60's. It was one of the first private aviation museums in Australia. The museums main theme concentrates on Australian designed or built aircraft, however there are a number of other types which have also served in Australia which form part of the display. The museum is open daily and contains over 40 aircraft and a wide range of other memorabilia.
Types of aircraft on display include the Wirraway, Ceres, Mirage, Beaufighter, Gannet, Firefly, Meteor, Sabre, DC-3, Tiger Moth, Vampire, Gipsy Moth, Sea Venom, Sycamore, Viscount and many more.
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Moorabbin Aircraft Museum Viscount
Address. Army Airfield, Oakey, Queensland.
Phone. (07)7691 7491. Fax (07)4691 7675.
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Museum of Australian Army Flying.
The museum is currently closed, but will be relocating to the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, in the future.
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Narromine Airfield, New South Wales, Australia.
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Phone. (06) 241 4044
Details. The museum owns a number of aircraft, but these may be in storage and not on general public display at the moment.
Address. Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales.
Phone. (02)9217 0111
Longreach, Queensland.
Phone (07) 4658 3737
Fax (07) 4658 0707.
E-mail manager@qfm.or.au
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Qantas Founders Outback Museum
Address. Caloundra Aerodrome, Pathfinder Drive, Caloundra, QLD.
Postal address. G.P.O. Box 2315, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4001.
Phone (07)7492 5930
Open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. 10.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m.
The Queensland Air Museum was formed during June 1974 and has been steadily expanding ever since. It has a fair range of aircraft, engines and memorabilia which have come from a wide range of sources and locations. (Three aircraft were even recovered by Queensland Air Museum members from Singapore). Types held by the museum include Canberra, Meteor, Vampire, Sea Venom, Drover, Dove, Piaggio P.166, Nomad, Tracker, Sea Vixen, Hunter, DC-3, Gannet and a Bristol Scout (Replica).
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Address. Cnr Melbourne and Grey Street, South Brisbane, Queensland.
Phone. (07)9840 7555
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Queensland Vintage Aeroplane Group
Address. Bull Creek Drive, Bull Creek, Western Australia.
Phone. (09)9332 4444.
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Address. 61 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania.
Phone. (02)934 3862
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Near Melbourne
Address. RAAF Williams, Point Cook Base.
Phone. 1902 240 553 or (03)9256 1236.
Open. Tuesday to Friday 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m., Weekends and public holidays 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Flying is held each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 1.30 PM (Weather permitting).
The RAAF Museum is located on RAAF Williams (South) which is at Point Cook and was the birth place of the RAAF and its predecessor, the Australian Flying Corps back in early 1914. The museum houses the largest collection of museum aircraft in the southern hemisphere and also has a large range of memorabilia on display. Many of the aircraft are contained indoors and visitors to the museum may also watch restoration work being carried out on some of the museums aircraft from a viewing platform which is provided in one of the restoration and maintenance hangars. Aircraft which are on display include the Mirage, Phantom, Sabre, Meteor, Vampire, Pika, Jindavik, Wirraway, Mustang, Boomerang, Shorthorn, S-51, Iroquois, CT-4, Harvard, Winjeel and many more.
Address. RAAF Base Townsville, Queensland.
Phone. (07)7781 2119
Address. Olympic Way, Uranquinty, New South Wales.
The park was officially opened on the 19th of September, 1999 and contains the remains of a CAC Wirraway engine (R1340) which crashed during W.W.II. It also has boards giving a brief outline of the history of the base and a list of personnel who passed through the training school and who perished with no known graves.
Address. RAAF Base Wagga, Sturt Highway, Forest Hill, NSW. 2651.
Phone. (02) 6937 4814
The museum is located at the entrance to the RAAF Base on the Sturt Highway at Forest Hill (Approx 13 km from Wagga Wagga). The museum is open most days of the year between 10.00am and 4.00pm (may be closed for lunch). It features a display of memorabilia and photographs relating to the history of the RAAF, particualarly in the Riverina region of Australia. The display also features several aircraft including a Canberra, Meteor, Winjeel, Sabre and Mirage.Entry is free.
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(Link is currently off line) RAAF Wagga Museum
Address. Barkley Highway, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. (Near the Grace Street intersection).
Phone. (07) 7743 2800
The RFDS base at Mount Isa has a display which covers the history and activities of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Address. Cnr. Ballarat Road and Riley Street, Hamilton, Victoria.
Postal address. P.O. Box 651, Hamilton, Vic, Australia, 3300.
Phone. (03)5571 2767.
The Sir Reginald Ansett Transport Museum was started to preserve the history of the Ansett Company and promote it's beginnings in Hamilton. The museum is located in the original Ansett Hangar and features a Fokker Universal and a wide range of memorabilia. The museum was also planning to include coverage of other Australian achievers.
Address. Cnr Ocean Steamers Road and Honey Street, Port Adelaide, South Australia.
Phone. (08)9258 5176
The South Australian Aviation Museum has a wide range of exhibits including aircraft, aero engines, memorabilia and a substantial collection of rockets and missiles. The museum regularly carry out engine runs of a number of the engines in their collection at prearranged dates.
Aircraft in the collection include Avro Anson, deHavilland Sea Venom, Vampire, Gipsy Moth and Chipmunk, Aerocommander, Moni Glider, Fokker Triplane (Static Replica), Douglas Dakota, Westland Wessex and English Electric Canberra.
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The original Fokker Tri-Motor "the Southern Cross" is on display in a purpose built display building.
Address: Brisbane International Airport, Queensland.
Open 24 hours each day.
This museum is located at the Temora Airport in New South Wales. A number of aircraft have already been acquired for this museum including a Cessna Dragonfly, English Electric Canberra, deHavilland Vampire, CAC Sabre and a Supermarine Spitfire.
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The Vickers Vimy which was the first aircraft flown from England to Australia is housed at the international airport.
Address: Adelaide Airport.
Open 24 hours each day.
Address: 112 Marion Road, Brooklyn Park, South Australia, 5032.
Phone: Curator (08)8443 7651 (AH) or (08)8373 3554.
Located at Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Adelaide, the West Torrens Railway Signal/Telegraph and Aviation Museum houses a wide range of equipment relating to railways, aviation and communication. The museum is located in the old council chambers and work began on setting it up in 1992.
The museum houses a number of rooms dedicated to aviation. These include the Aviation Pioneers room, Royal Flying Doctor Service room and the RAAF Memorial room. The museum also houses an extensive library and a large collection of navaids and aviation related electronic equipment.
The museum is open each Sunday from 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm and may be viewed at other times by prior arrangement. (Current Oct 1999). There is a small entry fee.
This museum has closed.
Located at Woomera, South Australia, the museum tells the story of the Woomera Rocket Range and contains several aircraft and rockets on external display and a fair range of memorabilia inside.
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