April 2012 Updates

Lets start the new month off with the addition of the 130+ images uploaded to the http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Uploaded page
First lot from Mike Mirkovic
Our first photos of most of these aircraft

Kittyhawks A29-493 & 447
Kittyhawk A29-435
Kittyhawk A29-71
Kittyhawk A29-83
Mosquito A52-44
Vengeance Mk.Ia A27-94
Beaufighter Mk.X A19-183
D.H.82a Tiger Moth A17-11 and A17-411
D.H.98 Mosquito T.Mk.III A52-1005
Liberator A72-136,
Wirraway A20-196
Wirraway A20-667
Catalina A24-112
D.H.86B A31-1
D.H.6 G-AUBH (3204)
D.H.6 G-AUDO (C1972),
Ventura A59-102
Ventura A59-103
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-241.
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-247
Beaufort Mk.II A9-43.
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-548
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-530
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-510
Beaufort Mk.VA A9-177
Beaufort Mk.VIII A9-407
Percival Prince A90-1, -2, -3 (New type added)
Lincoln Mk.30A A73-49
Sikorsky S-51 A80-374.
Washington WW353
Wirraway A20-667
Boston A28-28
Vickers Viking A82-1 (New type added)
Wackett Warrigal I and II (New type added)
Wackett Widgeon I and II
Meteor A77-362
Mustang A68-143
Hercules A97-210
Dakota A65-86
Sabre A94-362
Vampire A79-440
Caprioni Ca309
Sea Otter RD914
Sunderland A26-5
SE5A C214, F5652
Avro 504K E1878, E1804, D7787, E1895, F9754
BE2e 7133
Martinsyde G102 A1595

From Aardvark
Orions A9-300, A9-754
Canberras A84-242, -241, -228, -215, -230, -241, -238, -229
Dragonfly A80-374
Chinooks A15-002, -003, -008, -009, -010
Vultee Vengeance A27-17
Lincoln A73-55
Meteor A77-368
Vampire A79-807
Winjeels A85-401, -438
Neptunes A89-275, -309
Sabres A94-918, -927, -925, -962, -910, -922
Hercules A97-212
Nomad A18-309
Mirages A3-16, -41, -57, -86

From Gordon Birkett
Republic Lancer A56-5
Brewster Buffalo AN180

From Brendan Cowan
Sopwith Pup Replica VH-PSP/D4170
Canberra A84-307

From Peter May
Kittyhawk A29-55?
Kittyhawk A29-1054

Thanks to all the contributors.

16,457 images in gallery

That's a great start to April with so many images loaded today.

Well done Martin and thanks to everyone who is suppporting us with photographic contributions.

B)

Brendan C

Hi Folks,

I ve just brought a few of our NZDF-Serials pages up to our new format today:

Fairey Gordon

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzgordon.htm

Airspeed Oxford:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzoxford.htm

And the very exotic Foster-Wikner Wicko GM.1

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzwicko.htm

Plus the Auster

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzauster.htm


Cheers

BC

After a lively and entertaining discussion at http://www.adf-messageboard.com.au/invboar...?showtopic=1949 we have put together new pages for:

Spitfires in RAN Service

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/ranspitfire.htm

Vengeances in RAN Service

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/ranvengeance.htm

and added Lancaster ED867 to:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a66.htm

Thanks to Gordon Birkett, Phil thompson, Joe Barr, Batman & Phantom for the assistance and input.

Brendan C

Added a new page today for the Vickers Wellesley:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/wellesley.htm


Brendan

Updated Agusta A109E page
http://www.adf-serials.com/n42.shtml

Also added album for N42-129 with photo from Rod Farquhar

More pages added/updated today:

Lincoln

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzlincoln.htm

Blenheim

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzblenheim.htm

Beaufort

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzbeaufort.htm

Aircraft operated by WWII RAAF & RNZAF units within the RAF

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/rafww11.htm

Thanks to Tony McDonald for the information that formed the basis of these pages.

Brendan C

Another new page today, this time its the Spitfires of 485 Sqn RNZAF:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzspitfire.htm

Many thanks to Phantom and Martin Edwards for the assistance and advice.

There's a bit more work required to tidy it up, but there are over 380 airframes recorded.

Brendan

Todays new page is the RAAF Fairey Swordfish:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/swordfish.htm

If you can provide more information for this or any other page, we'd love to hear from you.

Cheers

Brendan

We did another update to the Spitfires of 485 Sqn RNZAF:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzspitfire.htm

Apart from adding more references, formatiing and photo links, we have added details for the following aircraft:

AB198
BM462
MH432
RW388
TE288
TE456

and updated:

W3245
W3579
JK860
MH819
MJ502

Many thanks again to Phantom and Martin Edwards for the assistance and advice.

There's a bit more work required to tidy it up, there are now 380 exactly airframes recorded - and probably more to come.

The break up of Spitfires that we note as having passed through the Squadron is:

Ia 27
IIa 29
IIb 1
Vb 139
Vc 7
IX 2
LFIX 150
LFIXc 1
LFXVI 18
LFXVIe 3
377

Brendan

Thanks to Joe Barr we have updated the Swordfish page again today:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/swordfish.htm

We now have, perhaps for the first time ever, a history of these aircraft after the RAAF gave them back.

Thanks Joe!

Brendan

Thanks to Gordon Birkett and Phantom, we have made further additions to the RAAF Swordfish page:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/swordfish.htm

Thanks again Gordy and Phantom!

Brendan C

Darren Crick has given us some updates to the CAC CA-2 & CA-6 Wackett Trainer page:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a3.htm

Thanks Darren and good to hear from you!

We have also taked the opportunitiy to update the page to our current format - some thing that we are progressivley working through on both http://www.adf-serials.com.au & http://www.nzdf-serials.co.nz as time permits or updates are received.

Cheers

Brendan C

Thanks to Joe Barr who has just completed another major update of our Supermarine Seagull V & Walrus I & II page:

http://adf-serials.com.au/2a2.htm

Joe's packed in a lot of new detail and it makes a great read.

Now, does anyone have any new photos of these types in RAAF (and subsequent) service to help round out our record?


Brendan

Thanks too to Len Avery who has proved an update to the Eurocopter Tiger ARH page:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/3a38.htm

Len has given an update for all 20 out of 22 of the airframes bringing us up to the fleet status as at 13 October 2011.

Well done Les!

Brendan


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We have posted a draft of the Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante page here:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/bandeirante.htm

Any further additions or leads would be appreciated!

Cheers

BC

P.S. Thanks to the ever vigilant Phantom and Martin Edwards for the help so far.