Registered in June 1983.

Transferred to the Australian Army about January 1990. After retirement became the gate guard at of 5th Aviation Regiment located inside the Duckworth Street entrance to RAAF Townsville.

VH-FNU permanently departed Australia on October 8, 2025,

Returning after a local flight is this 2006 built RV-7A. Prior to two days ago it was registered to someone based at Oyen/AB (CED3), now someone at Olds-Didsbury/AB (CEA3), however it has been based here since early August 2025.

This Curl carries a prominent sticker on the nose commemorating the Polish aviation pioneer and World War 2 commander, Stanisław Jakub Skarżyński. One of the first recipients of the Louis Blériot medal in 1936 for his solo flight across the southern Atlantic from Saint-Louis, Senegal to Maceio in Brazil. The flight took 20 hours 30 minutes crossing 3,582 km and establishing a distance world record in a FAI tourist plane category II. He was the first commander of the Polish Flying Schools in the UK and later CO of no 305 (Polish) Squadron. He was killed returning from raid over Bremen 26 June 1943.

nose-art

They constantly take off at dusk towards the north of the Mexican Republic.

Taxiing for departure to Boeing Field/ WA (KBFI) is this 1997 built Learjet 31. It had arrived from Eugene/OR (KEUG) a few hours earlier.

Arriving from Caldwell/ID (KEUL) is this 2012 built PC-12. It later departed to San Fransisco (KSFO).

ex F-WWRB

On static display at Wings India 2024. This beautiful business jet is powered by a pair of 67.28 kN Rolls Royce Pearl 15 turbofans with a 4.8:1 BPR that consists of the Advance2 engine core and new 10-stage HP compressor. The engines are housed in ultra-slimline nacelles.