Any additions or corrections, please email aviationwa(at)gmail.com
For list and photos of aircraft at the RAAF Association Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek, CLICK HERE
| Registration or Serial | Make & Model | Manufacturer’s Construction Number | Comments & Photo/History Links | |||
| VH-CFD | American Champion 8GCBC Scout | 436-2002 | Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Fuselage only. Used for ground instruction.Written-off 5 March 2009 at Albany, when it tipped onto its nose due to excessive braking on landing. To be restored for ground instruction. | |||
| VH-KCC | Auster J/5B Autocar | 3251 | Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame, Kalgoorlie – suspended from ceiling in the “Business Of Mining Gallery”. Named ‘Hope’.
VH-KCC Auster J/5B Autocar (MSN 3251) named ‘Hope’, at the Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame, Kalgoorlie – 22 October 2015. |
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| VH-FDJ | Beech 95-C55 Baron | TE-264 | Bill’s Machinery, Gnangara Road, Landsdale – located at rear of property.Fuselage only – wings were used in rebuild of VH-WDE. | |||
| VH-SUV | Beech 56TC Baron | TG-53 | Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Fuselage only. Used for ground instruction.
VH-SUV Beech 56TC Baron (MSN TG-53) owned by Polytechnic West, at Jandakot Airport – Sat 19 March 2016. |
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| VH-SQJ | Beech 58 Baron | TH-1561 | Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Used for ground instruction. | |||
| N732HV | Boeing 737-229 Advanced | 21137/421 |
Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Used for ground instruction. |
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| “G-AUDK” / VH-UDC | Air Charter Bristol F.2B Replica (Bristol Tourer replica) |
QA-32-1 |
Hanging from the ceiling in the Western Australia Museum at Geraldton, WA.Built in Queensland to appear in a 1985 Australian TV mini-series “A Thousand Skies“, the story of Charles Kingsford-Smith. Crashed near Geraldton on 1 June 1992, then rebuilt to static display standard. Photo: CLICK HERE |
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| Callair A9 | Bill’s Machinery, Gnangara Road, Landsdale – located at rear of property.
Believed to be VH-MPB (MSN 1067), but not confirmed. Can anyone provide registration? https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1708842 |
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| VH-III | Cessna 340 | 3400218 |
Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Used for ground instruction.Although still registered, it is out of hours and will be used for pressurisation check training. |
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| VH-AMP | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth | DHA358 | Cunderdin Municipal Museum, 100 Forrest Street, Cunderdin – suspended from the ceiling.Painted in RAAF colours. Was formerly painted to represent “VH-WLQ”.
History of this aircraft: CLICK HERE |
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| “M-2005″ / VH-WLQ” / CN-1 | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth replica | – | Cunderdin – mounted on poles at corner of Great Eastern Highway and Baxter Road, Cunderdin.
Built by Cunderdin Historical Society as a memorial to the Elementary Flying Training School, which operated at Cunderdin Aerodrome in the 1940s. |
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| VH-HPH | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth | DHA1375 | Edwards Wines, Corner Caves & Ellensbrook Roads, Cowaramup, WA, 6284.”Matilda”
Flown from England to Australia between 2 March – 13 May 1990, by Dr Brian Edwards to raise money for Legacy. In 1995, the aircraft was substantially damaged in an accident and was withdrawn from use and cancelled from the register on 20 June 2005. Now displayed in a hangar at the Edwards family winery near Margaret River. |
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| A79-603 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4124 | Previously at RAAF Base Pearce, mounted on a pole outside the Officer’s Mess inside the base.Photo of A79-603: CLICK HERE
In 1984, the plywood cockpit structure was encased in a fibreglass covering to provide weatherproofing. The whole aircraft had to be removed from the pole and parts of A79-603 were reported to be used in the rebuild of another Vampire, A79-620, which was then to be displayed at the old historic gateway at RAAF Pearce, however it was still under restoration at RAAF Pearce Air Show on 19 & 20 May 2012.
History of A79-603: |
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| A79-606 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4127 | Under restoration by Lenard Cotgrove, Serpentine WA.Mr Cotgrove advised AAWA in May 2012:
“I have just purchased the De Havilland Vampire 606. It had been dumped in a field in Midland for over twenty years. The wings and tail booms are in good condition, but the wooden fuselage is almost all rotted away. The main parts missing are the front undercarriage doors and left handgun cover. The cockpit Perspex is in poor condition. Its new home is in Serpentine. I intend to restore it to static condition as an expensive garden ornament” Previously Training Airframe TA-34. |
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| A79-620 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4142 | Fuselage pod was at the RAAFA Museum Bull Creek undergoing restoration. The restored aircraft, also using some parts of Vampire A79-603, was togo on display at the old historic gateway at RAAF Pearce along with a restored Macchi. However it was not displayed as at October 2010.Previously Training Airframe TA-35. AIRTC Claremont WA in 1974. Was located in Belmont, Perth WA marked as A79-962 (not a real serial). | |||
| A79-638 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4160 | Mounted on poles outside the front of the Beverley Aeronautical Museum and Information Centre, Beverley, WA.Photo: CLICK HERE | |||
| A79-660 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4182 | Bill’s Machinery in Gnangara Road, Landsdale.Identity unconfirmed – believed to be A79-663 with wings of A79-660. CAN ANYONE PLEASE CONFIRM THIS?Was located at the Channel 7 Museum in Tuart Hill, Perth. Later acquired by the failed West Australian Museum of Aviation, at Jandakot Airport. |
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| A79-663 | De Havilland DH.115 Vampire T.35 | 4185 | Bill’s Machinery in Gnangara Road, Landsdale.Identity unconfirmed – believed to be A79-663 with wings of A79-660. CAN ANYONE PLEASE CONFIRM THIS? | |||
| VH-ANW | Douglas DC-3C | 13624 | Preserved at Lake Preston Lime mine site, Finn Road, Myalup, WA.ex 42-93685, VH-ANW, VH-GAK
Flew 47,500 hrs before retirement to a childrens park in South Australia in 1971. Aircraft history and photos: CLICK HERE |
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| “VN-BME” (really PK-GDC) |
Douglas DC-3C | 20041 | Preserved as accommodation at The Lily, Stirling Ranges, Amelup, near Albany, Western Australia.
Ex 43-15575, DT-971, VHREY, PK-REY, “VN-BME” Formerly used as the Broome Tourism Centre at Broome, painted as “VN-BME” in the old red/black MMA colours. Acquired by the failed WA Museum of Aviation and stored at Jandakot. On 1 & 2 September 2012, the aircraft was moved to Amelup (north of Albany) to be restored as an attraction outside the Lily Dutch Windmill restaurant/accommodation complex.
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| A7-027 | Macchi MB-326H | CA30-27 |
RAAF Pearce – Gate guard, near security gate. Painted in orange and white colours.First flight 15/08/68. |
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| A7-041 | Macchi MB-326H |
RAAF PearcePainted in dark grey with yellow arrows on wings, vertical stabiliser and tailplane, and black skull on vertical stabiliser. Noted on static display at RAAF Pearce Air Show on 19 & 20 May 2012. |
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| A7-057 | Macchi MB-326H | CA30-57 | Merredin Military Museum, adjacent the water tower on Great Eastern Highway, Merredin, WA.Reported by the museum in 2006 as being incomplete and needing many parts before it can go on static display.
First flight 13/08/69. |
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| “VH-REM” | Mooney M.20H | 1 |
Mounted on a pole at Jandakot Airport, opposite the Royal Flying Doctor Service facilities.”Sugar Bird Lady” – painted to represent the real VH-REM (which is still registered), as used by Robin E. Miller (hence the registration REM). Reported to be an engineering experimental prototype Mooney M20H (c/n 1) which was donated by Mooney Aircraft to serve as a memorial to Robin Miller. The memorial was unveiled on 20 May 1978. Travelling to remote aboriginal communities, Robin Miller would treat children with Polio vaccine in sugar lumps and became known as “The Sugar Bird Lady”. She flew the real VH-REM around WA from September 1968-July 1972. She died of cancer in December 1975. |
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| VH-KLX | Mooney M20B | 1865 | Located at 569 Armadale Road, Forrestdale, WA.No registration worn – painted with titles “Flash Eh!” and “Kev’s Dinkum Tours”. Photo: CLICK HERE |
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| VH-AVL | Piper PA-23-250 Aztec B | 27-2356 | Located on rural property east of Northam at 176 Newcastle Road, on Northam-Toodyay Road.Previously located at Bill’s Machinery, Gnangara Road, Landsdale, but was removed sometime between May-December 2009.Fuselage only – mounted on trailer with large tyres, painted red, no titles or registration.
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| “VH-DAM” | Robinson R-22 | Polytechnic West, Jandakot Airport – Used for ground instruction.Not its real registration. |
© 2022 David Eyre
Does your museum have, or do you know of the whereabouts of, any information related to the 2001 memorial service for the Amana aircraft located at Beverley. The details & folders were stored at the now closed Beverley Museum but now seem to have disappeared.
I am writing a book about the Amana crash. My father was one of the passengers.
Hi Diana,
AviationWA is a website, not a museum.
I suggest contacting the Shire of Beverley to find out where the records are now located. Their website states:
“All items that were within the collection were returned to donors, deaccessioned by other means or will be used within new displays.
You can now visit the Cornerstone Building to interactively participate and view Beverley’s full aeronautical history. You can even “experience” a glider flight standing on your own two feet! The Cornerstone Building is located at 141 Vincent Street, Beverley.”
See the website page here: https://www.beverley.wa.gov.au/community/community-recreation/museums.aspx
Hello,
My name is Peter Shipside. I am trying to trace the whereabouts of Auster V series J4 construction no. 2079 last registered VH-PJN and believed to belong to Norman McAllister, Augusta, WA. The last info I have is that it was on rebuild by Lyn Forster.
When it first came to Australia it was registered VH-AAK.
Can anyone help please!
Cheers, Peter.
Hi Peter,
Unfortunately, we don’t have any further information other than the fact VH-PJN was cancelled as withdrawn from use in 1973.
Hi ,
I’m looking for some contact details for Mr lenard Cotgrove regarding A79-606.
Hi Andrew,
Have sent you an email.
Regards,
David Eyre
Hi there, progress report on Vampire 606 restoration.
I’m currently re skinning the fuselage pod.glueing stripes of 3mm Marine ply 75wide. It’s a little bit like a wine barrel, fatter in the middle, tapered smaller at the ends. Very time consuming. I’ve nearly finished the first layer on the starboard side, finished thickness will be 12 mm. The wings and tail booms have been restored, and painted white
Hi I’m Lenard cotgrove of serpentine, I’m restoring vampir 606