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

History The Western Australian division of the association acquired a Mark 22 Supermarine Spitfire from England in 1959 and erected it on a pole outside its 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 Bull Creek, officially opening in November 1979. In order to house the Avro Lancaster and a 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.

The museum acquired a Tornado in 2022 and a Hornet in 2023.

Gallery

Displays The following exhibits are on static display in the museum:

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 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet A21-101 Mignet Pou-du-Ciel (Flying Flea) Panavia Tornado GR4 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

Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major Armstrong Siddeley Genet Minor Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah Blackburne Tomtit Blackburn Cirrus Pratt & Whitney Wasp Rolls-Royce Avon Rolls-Royce Dart Rolls-Royce Derwent Rolls-Royce Griffon Rolls-Royce Merlin Sunbeam DYAK 1 (First Qantas engine) Wright Whirlwind Wright Cyclone Wright R-3350 Armstrong Siddeley Mamba Rolls-Royce Nene Rolls-Royce Viper Turbomeca Turmo

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.

See also RAAF Museum RAAF Wagga Heritage Centre List of aerospace museums

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References

External links

Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia Photographs Video of the Museum