Reference
Type notes
Short specification sheets carried over from the original archive, with the photographs that belong to them.
Bell 430A twin-engined light-medium helicopter, stretched and more powerful than the Bell 230.
Boeing C-17 Globemaster IIIA heavy military transport developed for the USAF in the 1980s and 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.
Cessna 180An all-metal, four-seat, high-wing taildragger. Built from 1953 to 1981. The Skywagon name covers the six-seat versions as well.
Cessna 185The more powerful Skywagon, introduced in 1961 with a higher useful load and built until 1985.
de Havilland DHC-2 BeaverFigures below are for the turbine DHC-2/A1, as flown by VH-AAX — a Garrett TPE331 in place of the usual radial.
Lockheed L-1049 Super ConstellationThe C-121C military transport version of the Super Constellation, four compound radials and the famous triple tail.
Pilatus PC-9RAAF PC-9/A in Roulettes colours at Avalon in 2005. The identified aircraft is A23-027.
Shorts SC.7 SkyvanThe box-fuselage utility transport. Almost all of the 150 built were Series 3s, including about 60 military 3Ms.
Yakovlev Yak-18TA four-seat, fully aerobatic tourer introduced late in the series to train Aeroflot pilots — one of the few four-seat light aircraft built in the Soviet Union through the Cold War. Seen here at Mittagong.- Yakovlev Yak-52A two-seat Soviet aerobatic trainer, first flown in 1976 and later built in Romania by Aerostar. Roughly 1,800 have been made; many now fly in the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Australia.