Well played Tony ! Its the rare Bunnings Special, restored to sit-worthy status by one of the volunteers 😉

good luck with your project .Are you going to feature the project on the web or just do news feeds ??.:cool:

Thanks, the project will receive regular updates on the Museum website along with the Facebook page, but I will also endeavour to put posts up when I can as well.

I like the way you have set out the website. I went on with a view to looking what aircraft were in the collection. The subsections were much easier to navigate than a long list and each aircraft has an individual history and a large photo, which is what I wanted. Look forward to seeing the gallery when you add it.

Thanks for the feedback, I just wanted to make something a little simpler – we debated about whether to list the collection by age but I felt going for the alphabetical approach was better. I will be making loads of little mods as we go forward just to try and make it a simple process for everyone. I’m hanging out to do the gallery too, could be a lot of fun.

There will be dedicated tabs for each of the restorations as they happen. That way, we should all be able to follow its progress 🙂

Nice one Errol, the Lincoln is in containers (!) but the Beaufighter, Mirage and Beaufort are there (there are two Beauforts, one is the cockpit section fully restored and the other is A9-13 which will be the subject of a long term project soon. The Jindivik is on loan to the Benalla Museum (as is the Macchi and Vampire) and undergoing restorations while there.

Cheers

Ewan

Hi Civil Aero

The Swallow is still under restoration at another facility. It slowed down a bit last year after the sudden death of one of the restorers, but it is moving along again.

Still many many things to sort out so you never know what sort of treasures are going to pop up !

Regards

Ewan

Thanks for the support everyone 🙂 Laurence, I have put those pics of yours into the photos by others album as well, love seeing shots that show different perspectives etc.

As to the Lincoln, it’s still in storage, aside from a couple of parts visible. I have not even seen the main parts myself. There are numerous shipping containers full of parts and god knows what – probably past members – which will require a thorough audit of and then we can work out a way forward from there. Transition from one Council to another is always a busy time, and especially when the last major Council change was back in 2000 !!