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If you look out to sea just after takeoff on one of our Tiger Moth Joy Flights you may see the remaining wreckage of Queensland Airlines DC-3 VH-BBV.

During the last weekend of March 1953 RAAF Lincoln and Mosquito aircraft visited Mackay as part of a recruiting drive. As per the newspaper articles below more than…

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Mackay Daily Mercury: Terry Hayes

It was 6am on June 14, 1943 when a United States Army Air Force B-17C Flying Fortress converted bomber (VH-CBA) took off from Mackay Airport, bound for Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.

Universally known and loved throughout the Australian aviation industry as the ‘crash comic’, for nearly forty years the Aviation Safety Digest was an icon

The RAAF Tiger Moth Handling Notes (1944) can be viewed via the link below:

In 1955, with the rank of Pilot Officer, I was based at RAAF No 1 Basic Flying Training School, Uranquinty, 14 miles from Wagga Wagga NSW.

Both of the Mackay Tiger Moth Museum’s DH82A aircraft have had previous lives as crop dusting aircraft.

During World War II, the RAAF established twelve Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS) to meet the rapid demand for pilots in an expanding Air Force.