• Aircraft:

  General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark

• Reg: A8-132 photos
• Serial #:

  8

• Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
• Photo Date: Nov 30, 1975
• Uploaded: Jan 28, 2011
• Amberley Air Force Base - YAMB, Australia

Rare low res view of F-111C A8-132 doing a 'Dump and Burn' while climbing over the Amberley runway on 28Mar1976. The 'swing-wings' of A8-132 are swept forward at 26 degrees in this view. This aircraft was later used as a Trials Aircraft by the Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) at Edinburgh South Australia. The F-111 fleet was retired from RAAF Service on 03Dec 2010. The Final RAAF F-111 Flight was commanded by WG CDR Michael Gray (CO 6 Sqn) in A8-125 at Amberley on Friday 03Dec2010. Apologies for low quality of this 1976 photo. Note: 1976 Amberley Airshow Date: 28Mar1976 / Photo Date advised by Ron Cuskelly, Vice-President - Queensland Air Museum (QAM).

Photographer

Aircraft

Yiwen Song A8-132

1,206 1 0 General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark

ZRY246 A8-132

1,853 2 0 General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark

Andrew Lesty A8-132

3,338 0 0 General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark

Photo location

Adam Mitchell A46-306

251 1 0 Boeing EA-18G Growler

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30

'Reach 2403' cleared the ILS and on short finals for rwy15 at Amberley arriving from Honolulu via Guam

Daniel Wilson 87-0032

1,557 5 1 Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy

Photographer

Front Stbd view of seven UK Air Force (Royal Air Force) British Aerospace Hawk T1A aircraft (including XX264 Cn 100-312100, in RAF ‘Red Arrows’ livery) each trailing tainted White smoke (in an Inverted V - ‘Gable’ formation) against a Bronze coloured sky – at Farnborough EGLF on 09Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin XX264

173 4 0 British Aerospace Hawk T.1A

Rare rear Stbd Color view of In-Service USAF North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4536 (Cn 191-232) Code FU536 (with droptanks) parked at Pyongtaek (now RKSG) South Korea in 1954

Wal Nelowkin 52-4536

800 11 1 North American F-86F Sabre

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30