I visited Syds collection in Mareeba back around 1998.
His “little” private collection is impressive.

While wandering around the hangar i came across a large wooden toolbox on wheels.

It was stencilled with RAAF (cant remember what SQN, but it was whoever had Canberras). It also had stenciled a particluar Flight Sergents names on it.
The name was very familier and later approached said person (who had long retired from the RAAF) and told him i saw an old tool box with his name on it!

He said that it was his from his glory days back in the early 1970s!
A friend of his has visited just weeks before i did and also spotted it.
He had told Rod about his old toolbox. Next weekend Rod drove up to Mareeba and was reunited!

Its hard to think that a wooden toolbox (built by the engineers themselves) wouldve lasted 35yrs still with the owners name on it.

The Wildcat Replicas were movie props…. made for the Thin Red Line? (that movie was also filmed in and around Mareeba)

Mareeba also used to hold a pretty good airshow every two yrs with lots of warbirds flying in. They did have one last year, but i dont know if they are having any more.