Museum - HARS Aviation Museum in Parkes, New South Wales

This week at HARS Parkes - 13th November 2020 A productive week at the Museum with work taking place on the Caribou, both Neptunes and ground equipment. Student volunteers from Parkes High School painted the stinger tail as well as fitted new perspex to windows and installed them in Neptune 272. ... They then completed sanding and paint prep of an airman's trunk that went from Parkes to England during World War II and will go on display in the Museum when complete with other memorabilia. Neptune 302 had the first manufactured cockpit window fitted moving us along to finally sealing out the weather from this ravaged beauty. We hired a cherry picker and cleaned down, repainted and fixed bird spikes to the fins of our aircraft including Caribou 275. With all the beautiful trees in Parkes the birds still prefer our fiberglass and aluminum tails. Call in on Sunday and say hello, we're open from 9.30am. Your entry fee allows us to continue to preserve this iconic aircraft.

A cracking photo of Caribou 275 making a nose-down approach!

You too can be like Fast Ed and whip up a ‘Lazy Lamb Caponata’ with fabulous local lamb from Outback Lamb and Ploughmans Hill Olives topped off with a visit to the HARS Aviation Museum - Parkes Watch and learn https://www.bhg.com.au/barbecued-lamb-chops-lazy-caponata

THE MAGNIFICENT THREE All 3 x Jacobs R755A2 "zero time" engines are now mounted on our Southern Cross replica. The Jacobs radial engine are 757 cu in(~12.4 lit...res each) rated at 300 HP each and are a 1940's design. Jacobs are no longer made new and and all our engines are technically at least 50 yrs old BUT fully rebuilt with new parts to be factory fresh. Come and visit us this Tarmac Weekend and see how good she looks. The photos don't do her justice.

Thanks for visiting us Fast Ed! Make sure you tune in to Better Homes and Gardens on Prime7 this Friday to see what Fast Ed cooked up!

Caribou 275 in flight on a glorious day!

And the fin on too...

Today’s working party effort, reattaching the wings to 302.

Thanks to Phillip Buckley, an update on our P2V5 Neptune restoration, as we work towards the Royal Australian Air Force 100th anniversary in 2021.

Marking 100 years of civil aviation in Australia, this three-part documentary series looks at how what happened in the air shaped our nation on the ground. It premieres Wednesday 14 October at 8.30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.

Mentoring, the HARS way! Bob teaching James from Official Parkes High School the in's and out's of our Convair 580 VH-PDW. Nothing inspires the future aviation like hands on!

813, our Wally Wessex looking splendid with the main rotors back on!