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| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 3 2020, 10:10 AM |
| The Auster page updates continue this month. Entries updated in our http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a11.htm for February 2020 include: A11-7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 34, 40, 53, 54, 55 & 61. And in our http://www.adf-serials.com.au/auster.htm, some further details have also been added for: NJ793, NJ902 & NJ923. There is still much more to include for all airframes and images to add later! Cheers  |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 6 2020, 01:29 PM |
| Updated details for A35-019, A35-020, A35-021 & A35-022 on our http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a35.htm which have all flown recently. F-35A A35-022 3 Sqn Fort Worth 31-01-2020 (Photo Keith Snyder) |
| Posted by: Kas Grigonis Feb 7 2020, 10:17 AM |
| Ongoing repair of broken page image links. All pages from CFS to Series 2 A31 inclusive done so far. More updates in the next few days. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 11 2020, 09:42 AM |
| In the course of updating the http://www.adf-serials.com.au/auster.htm, I also decided to do a complete re-write of the http://www.adf-serials.com.au/argus.htm. This also lead to updating the record for http://www.adf-serials.com.au/spitfire.htm. Some times research can take you on an unexpected path! It's a fascinating story about the Argus/Spitfire/Auster swaps at 454 Sqn in 1945!  |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 11 2020, 10:13 AM |
| And of course there has been a major revision to the http://www.adf-serials.com.au/auster.htm too. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 19 2020, 09:54 AM |
| I'm also adding an entry for the Museum of Army Flying's Auster AOP-9 XP285. Does anyone have any photos of her that we can use? Looking for both in service in the UK and on display in the museum images. Cheers Auster AOP-9 XP285 Woolsington Newcastle UK 1964 |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 19 2020, 01:13 PM |
| Our poor old http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a21.htm page has not had a great deal of attention since we first set up the page in 1998! Acting on a tip off from contributor Cynthja Pappin who is doing a research project for RAAF Amberley, we have updated the entry for A21-26 which it appears was the first aircraft to land there - even before the runway had been completed! As you can see from the rest of a page - there is still a lot of writing ahead for this page! I don't know of any images of A21-26, so here's a photo of A21-6 instead with 1 Engineering School at the Melbourne Show Grounds. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 19 2020, 01:24 PM |
| While cruising arround the NAA (National Archives of Australia) site - you often run into unexpected (and often very sad) information. This time for me it was a Casualty File for Pilot Officer Alan Gladstone Burt (400408), the only RAAF member of a 61 Sqn RAF Avro Manchester (L7396) that was lost with all aboard on return from a mission to Brest on 31 January 1942. I've added an entry for Manchester L7396 to our http://www.adf-serials.com.au/manchester.htm page. |
| Posted by: Brenden S Feb 19 2020, 04:48 PM |
| Well done to all those who have done the research and updates. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 19 2020, 06:49 PM |
| Thanks Brenden - your support is very much appreciated. |
| Posted by: Kas Grigonis Feb 24 2020, 02:34 AM |
| Housekeeping: Broken images on site pages are fixed for all ADF and PNGDF pages. This includes: CFS AFC Series One Series Two Series Three Australian Army Aviation RAN Other ADF operated aircraft WWII RAAF units within the RAF Air Force Cadets Captured Aircraft NEI Aircraft in Australia Papua New Guinea Defence Force and all sub pages. Page titles were also corrected for a number of the captured types so they display with the correct name in browser tabs/windows, and I also fixed a reported spelling error on the Peregrine page. |
| Posted by: Brendan Cowan Feb 26 2020, 08:30 AM |
| And a new page added covering the little that we know of 450 Sqn's involvment with some captured http://www.adf-serials.com.au/macchi200.htm aircraft at Grottaglie airfield, Italy in September 1943. |