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Offline gavor

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Name that plane....
« on: July 23, 2003, 06:06:03 PM »
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Offline ra

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Name that plane....
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2003, 06:19:27 PM »
Boomerang?
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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2003, 07:26:01 PM »
Boomerang CA-12, A46-47

It served with 83 Sqn and 2 OTU; coded with a large "47" aft of roundel while with 2 OTU; was coded MH-Q with 83 Sqn; cannibilized to repair A46-100 and A46-146; the Darwin Aviation Museum has the bare forward fuselage frame of this a/c in open storage at Darwin, NT.
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Offline gavor

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« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2003, 09:12:47 PM »
Very nice work Arlo, ra was also right but didn't have quite the same conviction :).  I've been to the Darwin aviation museum and seen this aircraft. Or whats left of it.

On a quick happy note, there's a second totally rebuilt Boomerang now flying around Australia.
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