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WIRRAWAY/A20-687



Serial #: A20-687
Construction #:
  1139
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model(s):
  CA-16 Wirraway Mk. III
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2016

History:
Delivered to Royal Australian Air Force as A20-687.
- BOC: December 1944.
- SOC: 1960.
- Stored as RAAF Tocumwal, NSW, 1957-1960.
Marshall Spreading Service, Albury, NSW, 1960-1962.
- Stripped for parts for Ceres fleet.
Ken Baird, Geelong, Victoria, 1967-1968.
Richard Hourigan, Pat Capron & Ron Lee, Melbourne, Victoria, Aug. 18, 1968-1999.
- Arrived dismantled.
- Loaned to Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbinm 1970-1972.
-- Displayed with fuselage side panels from A20-670.
-- Removed from Museum, Apr. 1971.
-- Restoration continued.
-- Completed at Moorabbin, 1975 as A20-561/QE-B.
- Loaned to RAAF Museum, Point Cook, Victoria, 1977-1999.
RAAF Museum, RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, 1999-2016.
- Displayed in camoflage as A20-561/QE-B.
- Stored.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.
Photo Source(s):
Brenden Deere.

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