Tag: Aircraft
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Lockheed Altair
Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross Replica – Balranald Southern Cross Museum The Lady Southern Cross was a Lockheed Altair monoplane owned by Australian pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. In this aircraft, Kingsford Smith made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States, in October and November of 1934. In 1935 while Read more
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Fokker FVIIB Southern Cross Replica
Fokker FVIIB Southern Cross Replica Southern Cross is a flying replica of the famous record breaking Southern Cross Fokker FV11B of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith from the 1920s and 1930s. Built in South Australia in the period 1980 to 1987 as a tribute to Smithy, the aircraft toured Australia during the 1988 Bicentenary raising money Read more
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Morane-Saulnier M.S.406
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 The Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 was France’s most numerous pre-war/early-war single-seat fighter and the evolution of the earlier M.S.405 prototype. Designed to meet a 1934 French “C1” requirement for a modern single-seat interceptor, the M.S.405 (first flown 8 August 1935) was developed into the production M.S.406 with a stronger airframe and the Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine; Read more