166 results found
| Registration / Serial: | VH-UOW |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Junkers G31 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Junkers G31 |
| Aircraft Version: | Junkers G31go |
| Operator / Titles: | Guinea Airways |
| C/n (msn): | 3010 |
| Location: | In Flight |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1935 to 1941 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 110044 |
| View count: | 7 |
Photo taken from a Ford Trimotor over the Snake River Valley en route Bulolo to Lae. The Junkers were used to haul cargo to gold mines at Bulolo and Wau. The roof could be removed to allow large objects such as cars to be loaded. Former Guinea Airways Junkers G31 pilot George Cannon supplied the photo.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-UOW |
| Aircraft Version: | Junkers G31go |
| Operator / Titles: | Guinea Airways |
| C/n (msn): | 3010 |
| Location: | In Flight |
| Photo Date: | 1935 to 1941 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-WOT |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres |
| Aircraft Version: | Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres |
| Operator / Titles: | Airland |
| C/n (msn): | CA28-19 |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1970 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 110043 |
| View count: | 4 |
The Ceres was developed from the Wirraway trainer, itself a development of the North American NA-16, the progenitor of the famous AT-6 Texan/Harvard.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-WOT |
| Aircraft Version: | Commonwealth CA-28 Ceres |
| Operator / Titles: | Airland |
| C/n (msn): | CA28-19 |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD) |
| Photo Date: | 1970 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-AGC |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland DH.84 Dragon |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland DH.84 Dragon |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland DH.84A Dragon 3 |
| Licence-built by: | De Havilland Australia |
| C/n (msn): | 2045 |
| City / Airport: | Point Cook (YMPC)Map |
| Region / Country: | Victoria, Australia |
| Photo Date: | December 1976 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 110033 |
| View count: | 3 |
Photo by Mike Madden of the ill-fated VH-AGC, which crashed at Point Cook on December 13, 1979.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-AGC |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland DH.84A Dragon 3 |
| C/n (msn): | 2045 |
| City / Airport: | Point Cook (YMPC) |
| Photo Date: | December 1976 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| City / Airport: | Uranquinty (closed) |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | January 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 109889 |
| View count: | 5 |
Photo taken about a year after the RAAF base closed for the second and last time. It had been built during World War II as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme. It closed after the war and became a camp for displaced persons from Europe. The RAAF returned in September 1951 with the No. 1 Basic Flying Training School until it returned to RAAF Point Cook in December 1958. The hangars and buildings were auctioned in the 1960s and airfield sold as farmland. The control tower in the photo is not the wartime structure. That was relocated to Evetts Field near Woomera.
| City / Airport: | Uranquinty (closed) |
| Photo Date: | January 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-SBT |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (U-1/UC) |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | TAA Sunbird Services |
| C/n (msn): | 258 |
| Aircraft Name: | Kerowagi |
| City / Airport: | Tari (AYTA / TIZ)Map |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1964 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 109829 |
| View count: | 6 |
Photo from El Partridge.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-SBT |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | TAA Sunbird Services |
| C/n (msn): | 258 |
| City / Airport: | Tari (AYTA / TIZ) |
| Photo Date: | 1964 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | N74607 |
| Fleetnumber: | 707 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
| Aircraft Version: | Boeing 377-10-26 Stratocruiser |
| Operator / Titles: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 15953 |
| Aircraft Name: | Stratocruiser Honolulu |
| City / Airport: | Milwaukee - General Mitchell International (KMKE / MKE)Map |
| Region / Country: | Wisconsin, United States |
| Photo Date: | 1950 to 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 109828 |
| View count: | 5 |
Photo by Chuck Boie.
| Registration / Serial: | N74607 |
| Aircraft Version: | Boeing 377-10-26 Stratocruiser |
| Operator / Titles: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 15953 |
| City / Airport: | Milwaukee - General Mitchell International (KMKE / MKE) |
| Photo Date: | 1950 to 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAX |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (U-1/UC) |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 247 |
| Aircraft Name: | Kokopo |
| City / Airport: | Lae (AYLA / LAE) (closed)Map |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 109611 |
| View count: | 6 |
VH-EAX was transferred to TAA and reregistered VH-SBR in 1960. Photo from Col Peck
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAX |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 247 |
| City / Airport: | Lae (AYLA / LAE) (closed) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAZ |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (U-1/UC) |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 258 |
| Aircraft Name: | Kerowagi |
| City / Airport: | Tapini (AYTI / TPI) |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 109596 |
| View count: | 5 |
VH-EAZ was transferred to TAA in 1960 as VH-SBT but retained the name Kerowagi. Photo from Col Peck.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAZ |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 258 |
| City / Airport: | Tapini (AYTI / TPI) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | N74609 |
| Fleetnumber: | 709 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
| Aircraft Version: | Boeing 377-10-29 Stratocruiser |
| Operator / Titles: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 15955 |
| Aircraft Name: | Stratocruiser Portland |
| City / Airport: | Milwaukee - General Mitchell International (KMKE / MKE)Map |
| Region / Country: | Wisconsin, United States |
| Photo Date: | 1950 to 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108981 |
| View count: | 13 |
Photo by Chuck Boie.
| Registration / Serial: | N74609 |
| Aircraft Version: | Boeing 377-10-29 Stratocruiser |
| Operator / Titles: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 15955 |
| City / Airport: | Milwaukee - General Mitchell International (KMKE / MKE) |
| Photo Date: | 1950 to 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-ASB |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Licence-built by: | De Havilland Australia |
| Operator / Titles: | Bruce W McGarvie Air Charter |
| C/n (msn): | DHA637/T171 |
| City / Airport: | Surfers Gardens (closed)Map |
| Region / Country: | Queensland, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1988 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108980 |
| View count: | 5 |
VH-ASB was registered in July 1946
| Registration / Serial: | VH-ASB |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth |
| Operator / Titles: | Bruce W McGarvie Air Charter |
| C/n (msn): | DHA637/T171 |
| City / Airport: | Surfers Gardens (closed) |
| Photo Date: | 1988 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EWR |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Lockheed 14 Super Electra |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Lockheed 14/214/414 Super Electra/Hudson |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 414 Hudson IVA |
| Operator / Titles: | East-West Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 6039 |
| City / Airport: | Wagga Wagga - Forest Hill (YSWG / WGA)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108977 |
| View count: | 6 |
Ex VH-BPT, VH-EWR was used for rainmaking experiments.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EWR |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 414 Hudson IVA |
| Operator / Titles: | East-West Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 6039 |
| City / Airport: | Wagga Wagga - Forest Hill (YSWG / WGA) |
| Photo Date: | 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| City / Airport: | Lae (AYLA / LAE) (closed)Map |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108468 |
| View count: | 5 |
The Qantas base at the old Lae town airstrip. Two Catalinas, an Otter and a DHA Drover can be seen. Flights within the Australian territory of Papua New Guinea and to Australia were taken over by Australian domestic airlines in 1960. Qantas resumed services to and from Australia following PNG independence in 1975. Photo from Col Peck.
| City / Airport: | Lae (AYLA / LAE) (closed) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | A97-205 |
| Military Code: | 05 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Lockheed 82 Hercules |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Lockheed C-130 Hercules (L-082/182/282/382/100) |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed C-130A Hercules (L-182) |
| Operator / Titles: | Australia - Air Force |
| C/n (msn): | 182-3205 |
| City / Airport: | Cloncurry (YCCY / CNJ)Map |
| Region / Country: | Queensland, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108451 |
| View count: | 5 |
A97-205 seen here before the installation of underwing tanks outboard of the engines. It had been delivered via the Pacific just before Christmas 1958 in company with three others. Photo from Ron Pioch.
| Registration / Serial: | A97-205 |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed C-130A Hercules (L-182) |
| Operator / Titles: | Australia - Air Force |
| C/n (msn): | 182-3205 |
| City / Airport: | Cloncurry (YCCY / CNJ) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-BPT |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Lockheed 14 Super Electra |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Lockheed 14/214/414 Super Electra/Hudson |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 414 Hudson IVA |
| Operator / Titles: | East-West Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 6039 |
| City / Airport: | Wagga Wagga - Forest Hill (YSWG / WGA)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1957 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108443 |
| View count: | 10 |
Ex VH-EWE, reregistered VH-BPT pending disposal only to find work during rainmaking experiments over the Snowy Mountains. In 1959 it was reregistered VH-EWR (R for rainmaking) in light of the continuing contract. Photographer not known, photo in the Ben Dannecker Collection.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-BPT |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 414 Hudson IVA |
| Operator / Titles: | East-West Airlines |
| C/n (msn): | 6039 |
| City / Airport: | Wagga Wagga - Forest Hill (YSWG / WGA) |
| Photo Date: | 1957 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-PRU |
| Serial Painted: | A6-25 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Avro 631/643 Cadet |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Avro 631/643 Cadet |
| Aircraft Version: | Avro 643 Cadet II |
| Operator Painted: | Australia - Air Force |
| C/n (msn): | 1060 |
| City / Airport: | Cowra (YCWR / CWT)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Event: | Cowra Air Show 1995 |
| Photo Date: | April 1996 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108137 |
| View count: | 5 |
Photo by Mike Madden.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-PRU |
| Serial Painted: | A6-25 |
| Aircraft Version: | Avro 643 Cadet II |
| Operator Painted: | Australia - Air Force |
| C/n (msn): | 1060 |
| City / Airport: | Cowra (YCWR / CWT) |
| Photo Date: | April 1996 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAY |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (U-1/UC) |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 253 |
| Aircraft Name: | Kieta |
| City / Airport: | Goroka (AYGA / GKA) |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 108120 |
| View count: | 7 |
Reregistered VH-SBS withTAA in December 1960 when Qantas ceased providing domestic services in Papua New Guinea. Photo from Col Peck.
| Registration / Serial: | VH-EAY |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator / Titles: | Qantas |
| C/n (msn): | 253 |
| City / Airport: | Goroka (AYGA / GKA) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Merlin Glider |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Merlin Glider |
| Aircraft Version: | Merlin Glider |
| C/n (msn): | Not known |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 107972 |
| View count: | 9 |
The unregistered and unapproved Merlin training glider built for the Gliding Club of Victoria by a team led by Norm Hyde. Tail from a Slingsby Kadet but rest original. Flew April 1943 as a tandem 2-seater with parasol wing. Crashed Benalla during a winch launch at club's 1948/49 summer camp. It had done 2600 flights for the club. Wreckage sold to RAAF Forest Hill and rebuilt by cadets. New fuselage but wing and tail from original. Crashed. Sold to Canberra Gliding Club and rebuilt as seen in photo. Crashed Cootamundra on December 27, 1959 when wing detached after casting off from an aero tow.
| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Version: | Merlin Glider |
| C/n (msn): | Not known |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD) |
| Photo Date: | 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-WOG |
| Aircraft Original Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (L-20/U-6) |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk1 |
| Operator / Titles: | Airland |
| C/n (msn): | 1561 |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | February 1971 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 107936 |
| View count: | 6 |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-WOG |
| Aircraft Version: | De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk1 |
| Operator / Titles: | Airland |
| C/n (msn): | 1561 |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD) |
| Photo Date: | February 1971 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Merlin Glider |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Merlin Glider |
| Aircraft Version: | Merlin Glider |
| C/n (msn): | Not known |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD)Map |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Photo Date: | December 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 107916 |
| View count: | 23 |
Investigators examine the wreckage of the Merlin glider of the Canberra Gliding Club, which crashed on 27 December 1959 when its wing detached soon after casting off from an aero tow. Pilot killed. The wing strut to fuselage attachments were inadequate, as the result of a rebuilt after an earlier accident. The unregistered glider first flew in 1943 and had made several thousand flights before the fatal final rebuild. Gliding was unregulated in 1943 with no registration or type approvals required. When gliding became regulated in the 1950s, existing gliders did not have to comply.
| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Version: | Merlin Glider |
| C/n (msn): | Not known |
| City / Airport: | Cootamundra (YCTM / CMD) |
| Photo Date: | December 1959 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Registration / Serial: | VH-GSF |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Noorduyn Norseman |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Noorduyn Norseman (C-64) |
| Aircraft Version: | Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman (VI/C-64A) |
| Operator / Titles: | Gibbes Sepik Airways |
| C/n (msn): | 274 |
| City / Airport: | Mount Hagen - Kagamuga (AYMH / HGU)Map |
| Country: | Papua New Guinea |
| Photo Date: | 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
| Photo ID: | 107783 |
| View count: | 5 |
Photo from the Ben Dannecker Collection
| Registration / Serial: | VH-GSF |
| Aircraft Version: | Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman (VI/C-64A) |
| Operator / Titles: | Gibbes Sepik Airways |
| C/n (msn): | 274 |
| City / Airport: | Mount Hagen - Kagamuga (AYMH / HGU) |
| Photo Date: | 1960 |
| Photo by: | Ben Dannecker (via David Carter) |
