• Aircraft:

  De Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou

• Reg: A4-264 photos
• Serial #:

  264

• Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
• Photo Date: Jan 31, 1975
• Uploaded: Oct 31, 2009
• Nadzab - AYNZ, Papua New Guinea

Airborne 'Wing View' (past the aircraft window frame and vibration damper at centre) of the Markham River Valley and Nadzab Airfield below. We were flying between Lae Airfield and Mt Hagen Airport on 24Feb1975, aboard RAAF 38 Squadron Det A Caribou A4-264 (based at Port Moresby). In 1975 Nadzab was an Emergency Diversion Airfield, capable of taking international airliners. Passenger Jet operations were to move from Lae to Nadzab that year. The only building at Nadzab then was a timber hut by the apron and Runway (visible at far left of runway). Nadzab is now the principal Airport for the Lae region. This Valley was seized from the Japanese Army on 23Sep1943 by the Australian 7th Division and US Army Paratroops. WWII vintage taxiways and dispersal pads for USAAC Bombers (including Boeing B-17s) are visible at the top/left of the photo. (A4-264 later crashed at Camden NSW, on 04July1986.) Apologies for the quality of this 1975 photo. (Scanned Agfa CT21 slide.)

Photographer

Aircraft

Low Res 'Fish-Eye' Lens Flight Deck View taken in RAAF Caribou A4-264

Wal Nelowkin A4-264

2,530 0 0 De Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou

Low Res 'Fish-Eye' Lens Flight Deck View of RAAF Caribou A4-264 on 24Feb1975

Wal Nelowkin A4-264

3,459 1 0 De Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou

Low res 'Fish-Eye' lens 'Wing View' of the Markham River Valley - West of Lae, approaching Nadzab Airfield

Wal Nelowkin A4-264

2,554 0 0 De Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou

Photo location

Rare Wing View taken from Air Niugini F-28-1000 P2-ANL Cn 11003 during take-off from Lae Nadzab Airport AYNZ on 10Feb1988

Wal Nelowkin P2-ANL

10,620 2 0 Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship

Rare 1988 view of passengers boarding Air Niugini F-28-1000 P2-ANL on the apron at Lae Nadzab Airport (AYNZ)

Wal Nelowkin P2-ANL

9,437 2 0 Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship

Airborne 'Wing View' (past the aircraft window frame and vibration damper at centre) of the Markham River Valley and Nadzab Airfield below

Wal Nelowkin A4-264

6,292 1 0 De Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou

Photographer

Small Attack Jet with Big bite - Close cropped Stbd side view of Italy Air Force AMX International AMX-T aircraft – Registered MM55024, Cn IT001 (First Built) Code AMX-T - on static display at the 1992 SBAC Farnborough EGLF International Airshow on 12Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin MM55024

290 1 0 Alenia/Aermacchi/Embraer TA-11A AMX-T

Close-cropped rear Portside view of USA Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 84-0025 MSN 936/C328 on static display at Farnborough EGLF on 12Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin 84-0025

185 1 0 McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle

Low res close-cropped front Portside view of USA Air Force General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon 87-0242 Cn 5C-503 (Code 86thWG) on static display at Farnborough EGLF on 09Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin 87-0242

174 0 0 General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon