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Serial #: A20-649 Construction #: 1101 Civil Registration: VH-WIR |
Model(s): CA-16 Wirraway Mk. III Name: None Status: Displayed Last info: 2012 |
Delivered to Royal Australian Air Force as A20-649.
- BOC: June 1944.
- SOC: 1958.
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Melbourne, Victoria, April 1960-1963.
- Used as CA-28 Ceres engine test stand at CAC Fishermans Bend plant.
Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Victoria, circa 1971-1988.
- Registration VH-WIR reserved, August 1974.
- Planned restoration to airworthy.
- Engine runs at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, August 1974.
- Stored.
Alan Searle, Melbourne, Victoria, February 1988.
Kermit A. Weeks/Weeks Air Museum, Tamiami, FL, 1988-1995.
- Stored, pending restoration to airworthy.
Kermit Weeks/Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, FL, 1996-2012.
- Restored for static display.
- Displayed in yellow RAAF scheme as A20-649.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013. |
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