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Powered flight of heavier-than-air machine [23] Sydney: Wright Model A: Colin Defries: 1910: 1910-07-16: Flight of Australian-built plane [24] Mia Mia, Victoria: Duigan pusher biplane: John Duigan: 1911: 1911-12-05: First airman to qualify as pilot in Australia (Licence No. 1) [25] Sydney: Bristol Boxkite: William Ewart Hart: 1912: 1912-08-06 ...
Australian Aviation Museum; Australian National Aviation Museum; Aviation Heritage Museum (Western Australia) B. B-24 Liberator Memorial Restoration Fund;
Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison; Cold War Air Museum, Lancaster; Combat Jets Flying Museum, Houston – closed [82] American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Fort Worth; Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum, Gilmer; Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth; Freedom Museum USA, Pampa; Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas; Hangar 25 Air Museum, Big Spring
The Temora Aviation Museum is an Australian aviation museum located in Temora, New South Wales. The Museum was established in late 1999, based on the collection of warbird aircraft owned by David Lowy. Lowy remains the President and Founder of the Museum, which is overseen by a five-member Governing Committee.
The Moorabbin Air Museum is an aviation museum at Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1962 as the Australian Aircraft Restoration Group, in an attempt to maintain a World War II-era Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. It has since become a museum, with a large aircraft collection.
First transpacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross (31 May – 9 Jun 1928); [174] [nb 31] first non-stop Australian transcontinental flight (Aug 1928); [175] first trans-Tasman flight (10/11 Sep 1928); [175] († disappeared) Lady Southern Cross, over the Bay of Bengal. [176] Sir Thomas Sopwith: 18 Jan 1888 27 ...
The Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum, formerly known as Australia's Museum of Flight, is a military aerospace museum located at the naval air station HMAS Albatross, near Nowra, New South Wales. The museum was opened in 1990, although efforts to preserve artifacts related to Australia's naval aviation history began in 1974.
First transpacific flight (US to Australia): Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia via Hawaii and Fiji, between May 31 and June 9, 1928. [174] First rocket-powered aircraft to fly: was the Lippisch Ente flown by Fritz Stamer on June 11, 1928, using solid fuel rockets. [175]