A long time coming but looking like some good news – the Port Stephens Council has stated that they will move of the Raymond Terrace Sabre jet to the nearby Fighterworld museum near RAAF Williamtown where it will be restored and overhauled for external static display out the front of the museum news reports indicate.
This will of course upset some in Raymond Terrace but it is better to bring the Sabre down off its pole, overhaul it and put it at the museum where it will be cared for better.
I recall last time i was there April 2011 after a media visit to the RAAF base, i spotted a Vampire between the museum’s hangers as well sitting outside.
By: baj - 11th September 2012 at 09:36
Excellent news to hear they are taking the poor old girl (A94-959) down off the pole….
HARS tried quite a few years ago to save her…… but strong local opposition from an amazingly, noisy, and aggressive minority called Save Our Sabre group was unbelievable…….at the public meeting sponsored by Council you would have thought we were Adolf Hitler the way we were treated by Save Our Sabre.
As is human nature with these things the Save Our Sabre organization did absolutely nothing positive themselves for the sabre except keep it up the pole rotting for a few more extra years whilst Council were forced to look at a politically more palatable solution.
To see the condition of her look at the photos in ADF Serial Web site of Sabre A94-959 in Series Two aircraft
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September 10, 2012 at 1:10 pm