July 2019 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

Another not so random gallery update
Douglas Dakota Most aircraft ended up with a new thumbnail link.
It was only going to be some photos from the 1954 Royal Tour however what was going to take a few hours took a few days!
Dakota A65-41 Sky Pirates Scheme Geoff Goodall (there were two of them, 108 was the other)
Dakota A65-41 as VH-XUX
Dakota A65-73 Photo Phillip Palmer 2X
Dakota A65-80 as VH-AIQ Photo Greg Thom
Dakota A65-80 Photo Greg Thom
Dakota A65-80 RAAF Photo via Greg Thom
Dakota A65-84 Refuelling at Parafield
Dakota A65-84
Dakota A65-90 interior
Dakota A65-90 Queens Flight 86 (T) wing
Dakota A65-90 rear
Dakota A65-90 with A65-123 taking-off in background, Busselton WA
Dakota A65-90
Dakota A65-90a
Dakota A65-90b
Dakota A65-94 at Salisbury South Australia
Dakota A65-94 nose
Dakota A65-94 wheels
Dakota A65-94 with 86 Wing Queens Flight personnel
Dakota A65-94
Dakota A65-94a
Dakota A65-94aa
Dakota A65-95 Repaint at HARS October 2015 Photo Martin Hobson
Dakota A65-95 VH-EAE Albion Park 4th May 2019 Photo Scott Mitchell 3x
Dakota A65-108 1979
Dakota A65-108 November 1977 Photo Greg Thom
Dakota A65-108 Photo Andrew MacFarlane (2x)
Dakota A65-108 Photo Greg Thom Sky pirates movie scheme
Dakota A65-108 which brought PM Menzies to Adelaide
Dakota A65-112 Guildford WA
Dakota A65-114 after undercarriage collapse
Dakota A65-114 Melbourne c1980s. Photo Nigel Pittaway via Greg Thom.
Dakota A65-122
Dakota A65-123 & A65-90 with armed guards at Parafield
Dakota A65-123 aircon
Dakota A65-123 Cleaning crew
Dakota A65-123 engine
Dakota A65-123 Forest WA
Dakota A65-123 front
Dakota A65-123 front
Dakota A65-123 guard
Dakota A65-123 Guildford WA
Dakota A65-123 Hamilton
Dakota A65-123 HRH
Dakota A65-123 Mildura
Dakota A65-123 Mount Gambier
Dakota A65-123 Queens flight servicing 6x
1954 Royal Tour Photo National Archives of Australia

Plus a few more that I forgot to record.

Judging by the photos A65-123 was the Queen's aircraft.
It was passed on to the RAN as N2-123 and was then sold in USA in 1975
The trail has run cold. I have no idea where 123 went.

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[Martin Edwards]

Plus a few more Dakotas from our uploaded images album that I overlooked yesterday
Thanks Kevin, Mike and Ray.

Dakota N2-23 Cootamundra 1981 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-63 Camden airshow May 1976 Photo Ray Christensen
Dakota A65-94 Edinburgh 1980 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-98 Wagga Wagga 1980 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-100 BK-P VHRFQ 35 Squadron c.1945 via Mike Mirkovic
Dakota A65-102 Parafield 1978 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-114 Broken Hill 1981 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-114 Edinburgh 1979 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-64 Wagga Wagga 1980 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-65 Edinburgh 1977 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-71 Canberra 1980 Photo by Kevin Gogler
Dakota A65-78 Edinburgh 1977 Photo by Kevin Gogler

[Brendan Cowan]

Hi all and happy new (financial) year!

We've just done a quick update to the A63 Link Celestial Navigation Trainer page.

This time I'm pleased to say the we have a photo of the building that this system was housed in at East Sale. If anyone has any further photos of A63-1 (either inside or out) - we'd love to share them here on ADF-Serials!



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[Martin Edwards]

Added some new photos, thanks to all of the contributors

B707 A20-627 Longreach 6th April 2018 Photo Greg Weir (3x)
Anson N4926 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly
D.H.89 Dragon Rapide A33-6 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly (1)
D.H.89 Dragon Rapide A33-6 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly (2)
DH.9 A5-19 Pratts Belmont Common via Kevin OReilly
DH.9A A1-7 Pratts Belmont Common via Kevin OReilly a
DH.9A A1-7 Pratts Belmont Common via Kevin OReilly
Fairey Battle L5617 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly (1)
Fairey Battle L5617 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly (2)
Miles M.3A Falcon A37-x Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly
Seagull V A2- Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly
Wapati A5-10 1929 East West Air Race Photo Charles Pratt via Kevin OReilly
Wirraway A20-221 Photo Sgt. John Waddington via Kevin OReilly
Unidentified RMAF Sabre Photo via Stuart Kirkham

[Brendan Cowan]

Awesome Job Martin!

And many thanks to our contributors too.

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[Martin Edwards]

Thank you Sir
Just a couple more today

C-130J-Fuselage-Trainer FuT 3x (A97-010 and A97-012 combo)
Hercules A97-010 AWM Treloar Technology Centre Canberra 12th July 2019 Photo Darren Crick
Hercules A97-010 AWM Treloar Technology Centre Canberra January 2019 Photo Phiilip Tracy
Hercules A97-010 RAAF Richmond Hangar 1 Photo Jonathan Young
Hercules A97-010 RAAF Richmond Photo Jonathan Young
Hercules A97-178 as PAF 4178 RIAT Fairford July 2018 Dave Richardson (1) aka Herky McHerkface
Hercules A97-178 as PAF 4178 RIAT Fairford July 2018 Dave Richardson (2)
Hercules A97-178 as PAF 4178 RIAT Fairford July 2018 Dave Richardson (3)
Meteor A77-1 Darwin 1946 Stuart Kirkham
PC-21 A54-017 taken at Sunshine Coast Airport 22 October 2018 Photo Alan Macdonald
PC-21 A54-039, 040, 044, 046 (A grey 4 Squadron bird) Stans taken by Stephan Widmar
Victa_Airtourer_VH-MFO_Moorabbin_1993_Photo_Roland_Jahne
WT333 at RAF Changi during return flight to UK 17th July 1969 Elwood Bear
Vampire A79-609 coded E Photo Via Andrew Doppel
Vampire_A79-609 crash site photos 001 to 015 National Archives of Australia
Plus more from the other computer that I forgot to write down, naughty me!
Our sincere thanks once again to all the contributors

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[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks to Mike Dalton and Paul Ven Den Akker, we have been able to add the identities of the next six AAFC Diamond DA 40 NG's:

VH-UEJ - New
VH-UEL - New
VH-UEM - New
VH-UEO - New
VH-UEP - New
VH-UEW - New
VH-UEX
VH-UEZ

AAFC Diamond DA 40 NG Page

Interestingly the initial two aircraft (VH-UEW & VH-UEZ) are from the Austrian production line and the six new airframes are from Canada.

Cheers