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| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 7 2020, 10:05 AM |
| Thanks to our friends at RAAF History & Heritage Branch, we have made the following updates of the past few days: • Sabre A94-982: Relocated/transferred to the RAAF Museum, Point Cook (September 2018) for restoration. • Iroquois A2-766: Held in storage for an Air Force Heritage Centre • Iroquois A2-771: Converted to gunship configuration in the 1980s. • Iroquois A2-773: On display in the (new) AWM annex, Mitchell aircraft storage & display hangar. • PC-9/A A23-020: Delivered as the first fully Australian built PC-9/A (earlier aircraft built from Swiss parts) 03/06/90 to 03/06/90 RAAF Darwin N T; visiting from 2FTS, Perth (with three others). Orange/white scheme; no unit markings. 11/19 Transferred to the Williamtown Aviation Heritage Centre (WLM AHC) for display as a PC-9/A(F) FAC training aircraft. • PC-9/A A23-022: 09/2019 Flown to RAAF Townsville and transferred to the RAAF Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre. • PC-9/A A23-031: 10/2019 Flown to RAAF Wagga; transferred to the Air Force History & Heritage Branch (HH-AF) for eventual static display at RAAF Wagga (-031 is marked as ‘Middleton VC’). • PC-9/A A23-032: 10/2019 – flown to RAAF Wagga and transferred to the Air Force History & Heritage Branch (HH-AF) for refurbishment and eventual static display (location TBC). Many more PC-9/A updates to come along with a revamp of this page! Cheers |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 9 2020, 08:36 AM |
| A few more updates to report (with more coming): 1) David Bell and Gordy Birkett have provided more information about Neptune A89-273's involment in the location of the historic ship wreck HMS Pandora (and fixed a typo or two). http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a89.htm 2) Gordy has also updated the details for P-40N Kittyhawks A29-531 to A29-555. Hats of to Gordy for the mighty effort that he has been undertaking for many years now to provide the histories of this type in RAAF service. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a29e.htm Happy reading! (Photo: A29-524 FA-Q 82 Sqn Labuan 13-01-1945 via Gordon Birkett) |
| Posted by: Brenden S Apr 13 2020, 10:58 AM |
| A23-009 is staying in Pearce, Well done BC and Gordy. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 14 2020, 09:26 AM |
| Thanks Brendon, Good result with A23-009. To all, A small update. F-35A A35-025 was noted flying on 08 April at Fort Worth in 2OCU colours. http://www.f-16.net/g3/uploads/A35-025-2OCU-KNFW-4-8-20-Snyder-a-33 See http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a35.htm. Keith Snyder Photo |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 15 2020, 01:39 PM |
| FYI, PC-9A Page Works in Progress I've been reformating our PC-9/A in preparation for further updates by moving the text for each airframe into our more coventional layout of starting with the earliest date atthe top of the entry and working down in time sequence. I'm releasing updates as I go -so apologies that it is not totally consistent until I finish editing. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a23.htm Cheers  |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 21 2020, 05:43 PM |
| Thanks again to our friends at RAAF History & Heritage Branch, we have updated several more entries on our http://www.adf-serials.com/3a23.htm for the following airframes: A23-005 A23-009 A23-017 A23-019 A23-028 A23-029 A23-039 More to come!  |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 23 2020, 02:57 PM |
| Thanks to Gavin Barnett, Peter Priestly and Scramble magazine we can add the following details to our http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a23.htm PC-9/As for Blue Air Training Following our recent reports about the US private contractor Blue Air Training , today Scramble Facebook News was informed by the company about its new acquisitions! We thank James "Chef" Barlow, Founder and CEO of the company, for his willingness to share this detailed information. The PC-9/As are currently being shipped from Australia to the USA. The well-known Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) red/white training colours will be replaced by a Blue Air Training paint job. "The aircraft will become grey to match the Blue Air Training A-90 Raider (TP-90 Redigo) fleet. The PC-9s will be given shark mouths in honor of the 23rd Fighter Group's A-10 Warthog heritage. On top of that, the spinner will become blue", as Chef told Scramble Facebook News. Chef continued: "As true 300 knots cruising "CAT-E" aircraft, the PC-9s are a phenomenal addition to the Blue Air fleet. The N-registrations are already filed with the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and these were selected to honor A-10 Squadrons with which Blue Air pilots personally served." These are the six PC-9/As of Blue Air: Tail 45 is N774BA (former A23-045, construction number 545) in honor of the 74th Fighter Squadron "Thunder!" Tail 52 is N775BA (former A23-052, c/n 552) in honor of the 75th Fighter Squadron "Attack!" Tail 53 is N776BA (former A23-053, c/n 553) in honor of the 76th Fighter Squadron thereby representing all 23rd Fighter Group Flying Tiger A-10 Squadrons and their rich heritage. Tail 54 is N354BA (former A23-054, c/n 0554) which was Chef's first operational A-10 Squadron (he had two tours with the 354th) Tail 62 is N810BA (former A23-062, c/n 0562) for the 81st Fighter Squadron Tail 07 is N669BA (former A23-007, c/n 507) this one is not honoring a unit  |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Apr 25 2020, 11:25 AM |
| Thanks to Stephen Baldwin, we have updated the details for the following http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a35.htm: A35-019 A35-020 A35-021 A35-026 A35-026, marked for 2OCU, test flight on 4/23/20. NAS Ft. Worth. Photo by Keith Snyder. From: F-16.net |