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Aviation

136 photos1900–1993

136 historic photos for Aviation, taken between 1900 and 1993, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 9 decades, with the most from the 1930s (56). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1900s 3 1910s 5 1920s 8 1930s 56 1940s 34 1950s 16 1960s 4 1970s 6 1990s 4

1930s12 photos

QF 3 inch 20 cwt trailer mounting AWM P05244.003, c. 1937c. 1937Flying Boat on Sydney Harbour, 26 January 19381938Ben Turner making a parachute jump 19381938Air pageant at Mascot Aerodrome, 19381938Army display Closeup of two women about to get in the boxlike flying fox, 19381938Parachutist Ben Turner jumping from plane at Camden, 19381938Empire flying boat Coolangatta landing at Rose Bay, Sydney 19381938Flying boats at Rose Bay, c. 1939c. 1939Aeroplane hangar Rose Bay for flying boats, 19391939Arrival of Frank Neil by plane, 19391939RAAF Base Richmond, c. 1939c. 1939The lounge RAAF Base Richmond, c. 1939c. 1939

1940s34 photos

RAAF crew working on newly arrived Lockheed aircraft at Richmond, Sydney, 19401940Avro Ansons 19401940RAAF Lockheed Hudsons, n.d., by Sam Hood, c. 1940c. 1940Seaplanes Rose Bay, Sydney, 19401291940Mascot Aerodrome 1940–451940Muriel Steinbeck, Sydney, Australia, 2 April 19411941Control tower taken for Building Publishing Co colour, 19411941Control tower taken for Building Publishing Co, 19411941Sideshows Aeroplane ride, 1925–571925–57Clyde aircraft shops with workmen at their benche, 19411941Aerodynamic School, 19421942Aerodynamic School, 19421942Handley Page Halifax bomber copy negative, 1942–431942–43RAAF Immediate Vacancies board, 1942?1942?Fitting Out Wharf at Garden Island. The aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA can be seen at the rear of wharf Number 7, Woolloomooloo, 19441944A group of twentyfive RAAF Stores personnel four RAAF officers and one WAAAF officer and other ranks for Transport Group FO Darvall, 19441944RAF tanker Hastings Deering Bankstown Aerodrome, 19441944W.A.A.A.F technicians Mascot, 19441944Womanwarworker1944RobHillier1944W.A.A.A.F technicians Mascot (cropped), 19441944Aircraft factory, Chullora, c. 1945c. 1945Aircraft factory, Chullora, c. 1945c. 1945Formidable Sydney Boom (AWM P00444-047), 19451945Aircraft factory, Chullora (cropped), c. 1945c. 1945Face detail, Aircraft factory, Chullora (cropped), c. 1945c. 1945Aircraft carriers, c.1946, c. 1946c. 1946Model aircraft Norman Lyons, 19461946Model Spitfire aircraft Norman Lyons, 19461946Elma and Stan Sismey 1946-06-031946Aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, Sydney Harbour, 19481948Vampire jet 1949 V1-FL191609731949Rose Bay Sydney, c. 1949c. 1949First Commercial Flight into Sydney 25th Anniversary Dinner, 19491949Aircraft radio AWA Conference, 19491949

1950s14 photos

Aeroflex tyres, 19501950Aeroflex tyres, 19501950Squadron RAAF Neptune over Sydney Harbour Bridge 1951 AWM P00448.1511951Evdokia Petrov escorted at Mascot Airport, 19541954Robert Helpmann, Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, 1955 (cropped)1955Mud hopper and pilot, 19551955Nobbys pilot station, 19551955Nobbys pilot station, 19551955Nobbys pilot station, 19551955Betty Hutton arrives at Kingsford-Smith Airport, Sydney, May 1955 - Australian Photographic Agency1955Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann arrive at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, 1955 - Australian Photographic Agency (APA) Collection1955Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann arrive at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, 1955 - Australian Photographic Agency (APA) Collection1955Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann, Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, 19551955Katharine Hepburn Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, 1955 (cropped)1955
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