Aviation Heritage Museum (Western Australia)

Aviation Heritage Museum
Established	17 November 1979
Location	Bull Creek, Western Australia
Coordinates	32°02′57″S 115°51′31″E / 32.0493°S 115.8587°E
Type	Aviation museum
Website	http://www.raafawa.org.au/museum/

The Aviation Heritage Museum is a museum created and maintained by the RAAF Association of Western Australia. It houses a large number of military and civilian aircraft, aircraft replicas and aircraft engines, of types that have served in the Royal Australian Air Force or have relevance to aviation in Western Australia. It is located in the suburb of Bull Creek in Perth, Western Australia.

History

The Western Australian Division of the RAAF Association acquired a Mark 22 Supermarine Spitfire from England in 1959 and erected it on a pole outside the Association's Headquarters in Perth. On 1 December 1962 the Association acquired an Avro Lancaster from the French. Many other exhibits of interest to Association members and the public were obtained in the following years. With financial assistance from the Western Australian Government a museum building was erected at the Association's Memorial Estate in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek. The museum building was officially opened in November 1979. In order to house the Avro Lancaster and Douglas Dakota the Association raised funds and erected a second museum building that was opened in December 1983. Since then many smaller buildings have been added, including a 48,000 book library, photo lab, workshop, model repair shop and technical library.^[1]^[2]

Gallery

Main entrance
Aviation Heritage Museum
Museum logo
Spitfire memorial
Spitfire Mk. 22

Displays

The following exhibits are on static display in the museum:^[1]

Aircraft

AerMacchi MB-326H
Auster J-5 Adventurer
Avro Anson
Avro Lancaster B VII NX622
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
Bensen gyrocopter
CAC Wackett
CAC Wirraway
Consolidated PBY Catalina
De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth
De Havilland DH-94 Moth Minor
De Havilland Vampire
Douglas Dakota
English Electric Canberra, license built by Government Aircraft Factories
Gardan GY-80 Horizon (Sugar Bird Lady)
General Dynamics F-111C crew module ("ejectable cockpit")
Link Trainer - early flight simulator
Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea)
Parasol
Percival Proctor Mk. III
RotorWay Scorpion helicopter
Supermarine Spitfire Mk. 22
Tandem unmanned aerial vehicle for mining applications

Aircraft replicas

Bristol Tourer
Hawker Hurricane - 5/8 scale
Santos-Dumont Demoiselle
Sopwith Camel
Bede BD-5
Sandhawk missile & launcher
Supermarine Spitfire (outside, at the entrance)

Engines

The museum specimen of the R-3350 is the no. 1 engine from a C-121G Super Constellation from NASA, registration N421NA. This Constellation flew between Geraldton and the Carnarvon satellite tracking station in support of the Apollo space program.

Artefacts

Remains from the NASA Skylab. These were found in Western Australia, after Skylab's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere in 1979.

References

^ ^a ^b Aviation Heritage Museum, retrieved 30 March 2011
^ Bull Creek (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2011, retrieved 2011-03-30 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

[RAAFAWA-1] Aviation Heritage Museum, retrieved 30 March 2011

[2] Bull Creek (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2011, retrieved 2011-03-30 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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