November 2018 Updates

[Kas Grigonis]

New nested album created for Sea Fury VW626

[Andy Marden]

A couple of minor corrections need making to the Mariner page:
A70-4 was c/n 3002
A70-8 was c/n 3018
Andy

This post has been edited by Andy Marden on Nov 15 2018, 05:49 AM

[Martin Edwards]

Thanks Andy, fixed.

[Martin Edwards]

Noted loss of former Hercules A97-180 at PAF Base Nur Khan- Chaklala

Added photos of Nowra two gate guards Seahawk N24-009
and Squirrel N22-018 Thanks to Darren Crick

Updated B-25 and Boston pages thanks to Mark Harbour and Gary Sheppardson

Updated Phantom page noting the demise of the final two ex-RAAF Phantoms 69-7212 and 69-7216
Corrected the report on an incident involving 67-7206 thanks to Dave Rogers

Some more old photos have been unearthed and sent to ADF-Serials including;
1945 photo of Tiger Moth A17-526 sent by Mike Clay (history added by Bert Dougdale)

Photos from the collection of Fred Thomason (via Greg Weir) of Canberras A84-244 and 307, Lincoln A73-59, Neptune A89-309, Tiger Moth A17-543 and Vampire A79-807

Photos from Albert Shire (via Tom Shire) of Dakota A65-98, Vickers Viking A82-1, Mustang A68-91 and an unidentified Bristol Freighter at the September 1950 Parafield Air Show
Tom also sent us a photo of Mustang A68-659 (shown below)
A rare photo considering the extremely short service life of this aircraft
Received 1 AD ex USA on 26/06/45.
Issued No.2 OTU 10/07/45.
Force landed 1 mile S of East Lake (Vic) 01/08/45 and that was it.
Tom sent more recent photos of Mustangs A68-105 and A68-199

Daniel Hunt sent a collection of photos taken by his uncle Tom Greenfield while based with 542 Squadron RAF at Laverton during 1956/57



Updated Airspeed Oxford page including AR831 thanks to Lee Morgon and BG473 thanks to Marcus Hill


Updated Bristol Freighter page with the names of the crew members killed in the crash that destroyed A81-2

Updated PNGDF page with the correct serial numbers for the Iroquois donated by Australia. We thank James Hollingworth who examined the constructor's plates on a recent visit to Port Moresby.
Also added the first of 4 PAC 750XLs identified although still haven't yet tied up its NZ civil reg. with its PNGDF serial


If you are on Facebook I suggest that you visit ADF-Serials Military Aircraft Group.
Danny Tanner has been posting a great selection of photos that he has scanned from his slide collection going back to the 1980s. Well worth a lookADF-Serials Military Aircraft Group

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[Brenden S]

Awesome updates mate

[enfield38]

Great work James Hollingworth for confirming those PNGDF Iroquois serials, it finally puts that misconception to bed. You might want to update the pre-amble above the table accordingly.