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Serial #: WD828 Construction #: F.8656 Civil Registration: VH-HMW |
Model(s): Firefly AS Mk. 6 Firefly TT Mk. 6 Name: None Status: Static Display Last info: 1992 |
Delivered to Royal Australian Navy as WB828.
- BOC: Dec. 1950.
- SOC: 1965.
- To Bankstown, NSW, Mar. 3, 1965.
Moorabin Air Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Feb. 18, 1967-1982.
- Trucked to Essendon, Victoria, July 21, 1973.
- Rebuild to airworthy started.
Michael B. Wansey, Newcastle, NSW, 1982-1989.
- Registered as VH-HMW.
- Rebuild completed, Ballarat, Victoria.
- First flight, Sept. 28, 1984.
- Flew as WD828/271K/Mickey's Mouse.
- Crashed during forced landing, near
Camden, NSW, Dec. 4, 1987.
Classic Aviation Pty Ltd, Bankstown, NSW, Feb. 1989-1991.
- Arrived, Jan. 1990.
- Rebuilt using parts from WD518,
Bankstown, NSW.
- Rebuilt for static display.
Returned Services League, Griffith, NSW, 1991-1992.
- Displayed on pole.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. |
Photo Source(s): John Parker Research Assistance: - |
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