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WIRRAWAY/A20-656



Serial #: A20-656
Construction #:
  1108
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  CA-16 Wirraway Mk. III
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2013

History:
Delivered to Royal Australian Air Force as A20-656.
- BOC: August 1944.
- SOC: 1960.
- Stored as RAAF Tocumwal, NSW, 1957-1960.
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Melbourne, Victoria, June 1960-1963.
- Stored at CAC Fishermans Bend plant for CA-28 Ceres production, not used.
- Up for disposal, Nov. 1963.
Airland Improvements, Cootamundra, NSW, Nov. 1963-1970.
- Stored, stripped of parts for Ceres fleet.
Richard Hourigan & Ron Lee, Melbourne, Victoria, December 1970-1991.
- Trucked to Melbourne, December 1970.
- Stored dismantled, Melbourne-Moorabbin, 1970-1991.
Rob Black, Brian Jones, Graham Waddington, Melbourne, Victoria, 1991-1998.
- Moved to Tyabb, Victoria, 1991.
- Restoration project.
Brian Jones, Geelong, Victoria, 1998.
Geoff Eastman & Ross Harrison, Ballan, Victoria, 1999-2013.
- Moved to Ballan from Tyabb.
- Restoration to airworthy at Ballan, Victoria.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
Australian Civil Aviation Safetly Authority.
Photo Source(s):
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