July 2013 Updates

[Brendan Cowan]

Hi Folks,

Happy New (Financial) Year!

This month we are starting to tackle bringing some of our largest pages (in terms of number of airframes) up to latest format adding new content where the opportunity arises.

For that reason you may see less pages updated than the last few months as it takes so much more time to work through these very large pages.

We hope that you are pleased with the results.

The First cabs off the rank for the month are:

A27 Vultee Vengeance

A52 De Havilland Mosquito (RAAF Serials)

A52 De Havilland Mosquito (RAF Serials)

The Vengeance update is not quite complete, so we will revist that one again soon.

You will notice that we have split the Mosquito into two pages for RAAF and RAF serialled airframes.

This time we have not only changed format and split the page but also added/updated the histories for over 300 airframes.

A big thank you to the Phantom who provided material to update/add 248 RAF serialled airframes alone!

Thanks for waiting so long for me to get around to that!

As ever, if you spot any errors, ommisions or can help us add to the photographic record for these types, please dop us a line at question@adf-serials.com.au.

Stay tuned for more updates.

All the best

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Hello again,

We have brought the pages for another major RAAF type up to the current format today.

This time its the turn of the faithful Avro Anson.

Again, we have split this page up to improve readability into:

A4 Avro Anson Main Page

A4 Avro Anson RAAF Serials A4-1 to A4-48

A4 Avro Anson RAF Serials (Single Letter) N1330 to W2660

A4 Avro Anson RAF Serials (Double Letter) AW451 to VM375

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Only 8 more types to complete our reformating and update of RAAF Series Two pages!

Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

Another major page has completed it's move to the current format today.

Its the Hudson's turn to to get a make over and update:

A16 Lockheed Hudson (RAAF Serials)

Lockheed Hudson (RAF Serials)

This time it's a two for one deal as we have created a brand new page for the RAF serialled Hudsons of 8, 459 & 464 Squadrons.

Special thanks to Gordy and The Phantom.

The Phantom provided details for 128 airframes to form the nucleus of the RAF Serialled Hudson page and has been patiently waiting and wondering when I would get around to building that information into a page.

Thanks also to my ever present companions:

http://www.joebaugher.com/
British Military Aircraft Serials 1911-1979 Bruce Robertson

Again, It would be great to build out the photographic record for this important type with your help.

To contribute to our image galleries for any ADF or NZDF aircraft type go to Our Image Gallery Upload Page

Seven more types to go to complete the overhaul of RAAF Series Two!

They are the Beaufort, Wirraway, Kittyhawk, Boomerang, Meteor, Vampire (A78) & Vampire (A79).

We'd like to get that done before the month is out if possible and then move on to other subjects and material!

All the best

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Another one done!

Todays update is for the:

A46 CAC Boomerang

Cheers

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

And to round off the week, another major type has been updated to current format:

A9 Beaufort - Main Page

A9 Beaufort - A9-1 to A9-100

A9 Beaufort - A9-101 to A9-200

A9 Beaufort - A9-201 to A9-300

A9 Beaufort - A9-301 to A9-400

A9 Beaufort - A9-401 to A9-500

A9 Beaufort - A9-501 to A9-600

A9 Beaufort - A9-601 to A9-700

A9 Beaufort - A9-701 to A9-746 & A9-1001

Would you like to help fill out our Beaufort research further?

We are on the look out for someone to adopt these pages and add more of the history of each of these airframes building on Jan Herivals work.

All the best

Brendan

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[Martin Edwards]

Moved photos from the uploaded album to their individual aircraft albums and added links to their aircraft pages

From Mike Mirkovic and Gordon Birkett
Martin Mariner A70-1, -3, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -11, -12

From Mike Mirkovic
NA-15 A20-1
Wapiti A5-5
Demon A1=21
Bombay L5895, L5844
Vulcan XA897
Valiant WP206
Victor XL161

Steve Butts
Caribou A4-171

Gordon Birkett,
Buffalo A51-13, -14, AN215, W8142, W8156, W8157

Rod Farquhar
Anson A4-31, DJ213, N1336, W2111,
Oxford V3354

Graham Pring
Wessex N7-215, -205 and -211

Once again thanks to all contributors

[Martin Edwards]

Added the following photos from Gordon Birkett
Added links to aircraft pages as needed
Beaufighter A8-196, -328, -362
Wackett A3-138, -158, -173, -189, -193, -196, -197, -200
Thanks Gordy

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

It's turning into another very productive month!

Today we have releaed that updates for the new look Wirraway pages:

A20 CAC Wirraway Main Page

A20 NA-16 & Wirraway A20-1 to A20-100

A20 Wirraway A20-101 to A20-200

A20 Wirraway A20-201 to A20-300

A20 Wirraway A20-301 to A20-400

A20 Wirraway A20-401 to A20-500

A20 Wirraway A20-501 to A20-600

A20 Wirraway A20-601 to A20-700

A20 Wirraway A20-701 to A20-772

Stay tuned for updates to our P-40 pages coming up soon.

All the best

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks to Gordy B we've updated the N48 Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk Page to reflect the first flight of N48-001 on 26 June 2013.

Cheers


BC

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[Brendan Cowan]

Another page update today.

Thanks again to The Phantom for the extra information to update the:

Handley Page Hampden.

New Aircraft added:

L4038, P1156, P1201, P1203, P2078, P2085, P2145, P5326, P5328, P5329, X3140, AD783, AD792, AE132, AE243, AE249, AE308, AE352, AE378, AN166, AT119, AT181, AT192 & AT221.


Aircraft updated:

P1272, P5304, AE430, AE436, AN148, AN157 & AT109.



Cheers

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

A big thank you today to the Phantom who has provided enough information to to completeley re-vamp our Australian Vickers Wellington Page .

The updates adds a whopping 264 additional airframes to the page and updates details that we held for a further 63 airframes for 9 Marks of 458, 460 & 466 Squadron operated Wellingtons.

Phantom, I will get to your Halifax updates one say soon too!

Cheers


Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

And to top the week off, we now have an updated collection of Curtiss P40 Pages:

A29 P-40 Tomahawk & Kittyhawk Main Page

RAF Serialled Tomahawks 3 & 450 Sqns, RAAF

RAF Serialled P-40 Kittyhawks 3 & 450 Sqns, RAAF

A29 P-40E The RAAF's first 25 P-40's

A29-1 to A29-163 P-40E

A29-164 to A29-203 P-40K

A29-204 to A29-389 P-40M

A29-400 to A29-704 P-40N

A29-800 to A29-1221 P-40N

Stay tuned for more.

All the best

Brendan

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[Martin Edwards]

That is a mighty fine effort Brendan!

More photos added to our image gallery

From Rod Farquhar’s visit to the Mallala museum;

Ansons DG924 (Our first reference to this airframe), L9162, N4876, W2522
Rod also included photos of headstones in the Mallala War Cemetery of aircrew killed in Ansons

Mustangs A68-118, -141, -145, -150, -164, -179

Oxford NH656

Liberator A72-122

Lincoln A73-14, -20

Percival Prince A90-3

From Mike Mirkovic we have;
Brewster Buffalos AN172, W8158, W8231, W8236
GA-W and GA-T


Dave Masterson sent;
Wessex WA-217 (Graham Pring), N7-224

Thanks again to all contributors

I have added a new album for RAAF 8 Squadron
I have added a new album for RAAF 21 Squadron

[Brendan Cowan]

Great progress Martin and thanks to all of our photo contributors!

Now that we have nearly concluded the migration of RAAF Series 2 pages to our new format, it's time get moving on RAAF & ADF Series 3.

Here are a few starters:

A1 Bell 47G Sioux Update to new format and added further details for A1-399, 408, 564, 566, 570, 642, 660, 673 & 724

A4 Caribou Update image links

A5 Sud Aviation Alouette III Move to new format and updated pre and post RAAF identity information for A5-165, A5-166 & A5-167.

A6 Vickers Viscount Move to new format

A10 & N15 HS748 Move to new format

A11 Dassault Mystere 20 Move to new format and updates to A11-078, A11-085 & A11-090

A12 BAC 111 Move to new format

A23 Pilatus PC-9a Update image links

A27 Bae Hawk 127 Update image links

A34 Alenia C-27J Spartan Update image links

A36 Boeing 737 BBJ Move to new format

A37 Bombardier Challenger Move to new format

A40 NH Industries MRH-90 Move to new format

A43 RQ-7B Shadow 200 Update format and image links

A45 IAI Heron Move to new format


Cheers

BC

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Link trainer page

Updated status of A13-128 and photos thanks to Stephen McCann
Updated status of A13-120 and photos thanks to Robert Boyd

Added current locations and photos of A13-32 (Museum Victoria, Melbourne)
and A13-34 (National Australian Museum, Canberra)

Added Graham Pring photos of Wessex N7-223, -224, -226 thanks to Dave Masterson

Thanks to all contributors

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

More great photos coming in thanks to our regulars and also our ever growing band of new contributors!

Todays Crop of Updates:

A14 Pilatus PC-6B Turbo Porter Moved page to current format and major update of details for A14-652, 653, 661, 662, 684, 687, 689, 693, 701, 703, & 705.

A18 GAF Nomad Moved page to current format.

A22/N22 Aerospatiale Squirrel Moved page to current format and details updated for all airframes (especially post ADF lives for thoe no longer in service).

A26 Dassault Falcon 900 Moved to current format and updated registration details for A26-070, A26-073, A26-074, A26-076 & A26-077.

N42 Agusta A109E Moved to current format and updated registration details for N42-129, N42-501, N42-505 & N42-510.

More to come.

:D

BC

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Vampire Image Gallery
Added the following photos (30 different Vampires, 60 odd photos in total)
We now have images of 111 of the Vampires in ADF service.

A79-24 (New Album) Photo from Winston
A79-165 Dick Winterburn
A79-202 Dick Winterburn
A79-375 Dick Winterburn
A79-422 Dick Winterburn, Jason Cockayne
A79-476 Dick Winterburn
A79-593 Dick Winterburn
A79-602 Dick Winterburn
A79-606 (New Album) Jason Cockayne
A79-608 J Burton
A79-631 u/k
A79-636 Dick Winterburn
A79-638 Jason Cockayne
A79-640 Bob Jenner-Hobbs
A79-651 Jason Cockayne
A79-659 Dick Winterburn
A79-660 Dick Winterburn
A79-661 u/k
A79-663 Jason Cockayne
A79-664 Jason Cockayne, u/k
A79-804 u/k
A79-819 u/k
A79-824 u/k
A79-832 Dick Winterburn
A79-840 Dick Winterburn
A79-915 (New Album) ARL
A79-? Unidentified FB.31 at Dookie Vic. Dick Winterburn
N6-770 u/k
XA101 u/k
XA167 marked as "XA-873" Peter Lewis

Above photos marked u/k, the photographer is unknown, if it is you please contact us for the credit you deserve. Thanks to all the other contributors.

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[Brendan Cowan]

Good Stuff Martin,

I can see that you're gearing up for a Vampire Page update!

Thanks to the Phantom, our Handley Page Halifax Page has expanded from 53 airframes to - we'll so many that I haven't completed the count!

We've also given Mark Lax's page on Known 462 Squadron, RAAF Aircraft Serials a bit of face lift with some images now added.

Cheers

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks to the Phantom, today we have a greatly expanded Martin Baltimore Page.

Thanks also to Gordon Birkett and Janette Agg, daughter of Warrant Officer George Townson Agg - Navigator (RAAF - 400954) of 454 Sqn who provided the following:

Hi,

Some info you might want to add for 454 Squadron RAAF Baltimore aircraft.

My Dad, George Townson Agg, was a Navigator on a 454 Squadron aircraft shot down on 4 Dec 1943. He ended up in POW camp with all of the crew, except for the one crew member who bailed out instead of staying with the plane when it ditched.

The aircraft was FA578 (from Dad’s log book, recovered when he got out of POW camp), pilot was Dave Paul – there is information about him at http://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/...AUL%20DFC_4.pdf

The crew details were:
Flight Lieutenant David Valentine Paul - Pilot (RAAF – 403215 or O210106) - POW
Warrant Officer George Townson Agg - Navigator (RAAF - 400954) - POW
Warrant Officer Jim Rennie (RAF- 645357) Wing Operator(sic)/Air Gunner - POW
Warrant Officer Ralph Mervyn Simpson - Wing Operator(sic)/ Air Gunner (RAAF - 406684) – missing in action – he was seen to parachute out, but they never heard from him again, so presumed KIA.
A couple of bits from Dad’s diary note at 9:40 am on that day said:
“Shot down by two Me109F East of Keos. After ditching & going down with plane – swam to the surface & through burning petrol. We were picked up by two Arado 196. …”
“Jimmie burnt a bit but rest of us (Dave & I) OK. (No news of Ralph).”

Just wanted to add: Some websites have the aircraft that they were shot down in as FA548, and this matches with http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1941_4.html.

Although Dad’s logbook says FA578, it was filled in by someone other than Dad, after the aircraft went missing. It may be that whoever filled it in did so incorrectly, and that when Dad got his log book back after the war, he didn’t remember, or check that the number was correct. The OTHER sources of information as quoted at http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/454members/pauld.html .

Regards,
Janette

Cheers

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Another page update today in Series Three:

A15 CH-47 Chinook

As well as bringing the page up to current format, we have updated the details for A15-102 and A15-103 and added new entries for A15-151 & A15-152.

Please let us know if you can help us record more about the histories of these airframes.

Cheers

BC

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[Brendan Cowan]

Also updated from Series Three today:

A32 Beech King Air

Pretty much all airframes have been updated in this pass.

Does any one have any current info for us on the following airframes:

A32-001 VH-KBH (BB-1125)
A32-002 VH-KCH (BB-1189)
A32-003 VH-YDH (BB-1401)
A32-004 VH-YEH (BB-1463)
PK-VKI (BL-138)
VH-LKB (BB-259)
VH-OYA (BB-365)

Cheers

BC

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[Brendan Cowan]

Hi folks,

Another Series Three, Army & Navy page update today:

A17 & N17 Bell Kiowa

This is a pretty major readability update to the page but we lack a lot of information post 2005 for many of the airframes.

Airframes updated in this passs include:

70-15236
70-15238
70-15240
70-15242
70-15243
A17-004
A17-005
N17-006
A17-056

If you know more about these aircraft, please read the updated page and drop us a line at question@adf-serials.com.au.

We'd love to hear from you.

Cheers

Brendan


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[Brendan Cowan]

Also today, we have a complete re-write of the:

DHC-6 Twin Otter page Updating VH-HPT, VH-HPY & VH-OHP.

We're still chasing some more current information for VH-HPT post 2004 and VH-HPY (Now P2-KSI) post 1997.

Also, we have no photo for VH-HPY.

Over to you!

Cheers

Brendan

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[Martin Edwards]

There is a Kiowa at the RAAHC at Amberley
According to Aardvark it is a composite with the follwing parts identified

The LH front door has 056, the RH front door 008, the fin 023.

056 has been roughly stenciled on both sides of the rear fuselage.

Colours are a mismatch.

(Photo Mark Clayton)

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[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

I've added tha information to the page.

Looks like a Canberra canopy in shot too.

Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

Several more page updates today including:

N3 Fairey Gannet Move to current format

A21 F/A-18A & B Hornet Move to current format and thanks to Tony Moclair for updated information for A21-10, 16, 25, 29, 30, 37, 53, 105, 107 & 111 which were all subject to CBR.

N28 Kalkara Move to current format and complete page re-write

N29 Kaman SH-2G(A) Seasprite Move to current format and minor updates

A30 Boeing E-7A Wedgetail Move to current format

A44 F/A-18F Super Hornet Added image links

Supermarine Sea Otter Move to current format

Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

G'day All,

A couple more page updates over the last week that I hadn't reported here are:

A40 MRH-40 Taipan Added more C/N details and image links

N3 Fairey Gannet Updated Tail Codes and Side Numbers. Thanks to everyone who contributed to that discussion!

N4 Sea Venom Added section on FAW.20 aircraft and updated image links

Now for the August updates!

Cheers

BC