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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: gavor on July 23, 2003, 06:06:03 PM

Title: Name that plane....
Post by: gavor on July 23, 2003, 06:06:03 PM

(http://www.aarg.com.au/images/BoomerangCA-12lge.gif)

Title: Name that plane....
Post by: ra on July 23, 2003, 06:19:27 PM

Boomerang?

Title: Name that plane....
Post by: Arlo 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.

Title: Name that plane....
Post by: gavor 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.