Firefly WB518 was mounted on the pole at Griffith around 1970. In 1991, following the 1987 crash of Firefly VH-HMW/WD828, it was removed from the pole so the centre section and forward fuselage could be used in the restoration of HMW. In return, parts from the crashed aircraft would be made suitable for static display and WB518 returned to the pole. HMW was sold in the US before the project as finished. The new owner decided the aircraft he had was WB518, not WD828, and the data on the FAA register for N518WB is for WB518. Both WB518s have major parts from the original aircraft.

WB518 stored in Griffith in a trucking yard ahead of being mounted on a pole in the main street. It was taken down from the pole in 1991 and forward fuselage and centre section used to repair VH-HMW/WD828 which had crashed. The damaged parts from -HMW were patched and fitted to the rest of WB518, which was then returned to the pole. Repairs on -HMW were done in the US and it became N518WB. The owner considers the aircraft to be WB518, not WD828.

This is one of those tricky ones! The original WB518 was built for the RAN and delivered in 1950. In 1965 it was delivered to Bankstown for disposal and eventually bought by the town of Griffith, NSW, as a war memorial and mounted on a pole in the centre of town. After VH-HMW/WD828 crashed in 1987, WB518 was removed from its pole and the forward fuselage and centre-section was used to rebuild WD828. The corresponding bits from WD828 were used to reconstruct WB518, and it was re-mounted on its pole.