AURI (Angkatan Udara Republik Indonesia) since 5 October 1971 received seven units of Mustang II (ex ML/Militaire Luchtvaart) and two units of double seats, TF-51D as part of a military assistance program called Peace Pony from the United States Department of Defense. One of the Mustang IIs (ex 44-84473) registered F-347 (rehabilitation result) has been in the Satria Mandala Museum collection since 1976, complete with typical Cocor Merah decoration. https://aviahistoria.com/2020/01/24/cavelier-mustang-ii-f-347-museum-satria-mandala/

It is huge! So huge it got's its own museum build around it!

One of four Freighters used by the RAAF, this Mk.21 was first registered G-AIMI in December 1946 to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. At the beginning 1949 it became WB482 but was transferred to Australia as A81-1 in April that year, operating with ARDU, 34 Sqdn, ATU and 2ATU till bought by Jetair Australia in May 1970 as VH-SJG. They ceased operations in November that year but it was bought by Air Express in 1971. It was withdrawn from use in 1978 but a private buyer placed it on display at Chewing Gum Field, Coolangatta, Qld back in its RAAF livery, later moving to the Point Cook museum.

Initially allocated RAF serial AL807, this Boston was one of 22 instead shipped to the Netherlands East Indies Air Force (NEIAF) and overpainted with the markings of the Kon Marine (Dutch Navy), assigned serial 240. In March 1942 with the fall of Java it was diverted while still in transit to the RAAF's 22 Sqdn but crashed on Goodenough Island in the Solomon Sea off New Guinea in September 1943 after bombing Gasmata, occupied by the Japanese forces, on the southern coast of New Britain. The wreck was recovered by an RAAF Chinook and onward shipment to Amberley in 1987 for restoration.

Mirages entered service with the RAAF in 1965 and were used in a front-line role by seven RAAF units. A total of 116 were supplied, the first 50 as Mirage IIIO(F)s to serve as interceptors. The rest were designated IIIO(A) and equipped to serve in the ground attack role after the addition of Cyrano radar. Initially they were delivered in a natural metal finish but soon silver paint became standard, replaced by camouflage for the ground attack role. Between 1968 and 1987 A3-92 served 3, 79 and 77 Sqdns. The last Mirages were withdrawn in 1988 as the F/A-18 Hornet took over.

Built by A.V. Roe & Co at Newton Heath, Manchester and first flown in February 1939, crated and shipped to Melbourne. Operated by the RAAF's CFS and 8OTU during the war years, the Cadet was sold as surplus in 1945 becoming VH-AHI, changing hands several times and being used as a crop duster at various stages. In February 1961, by now VH-BJB, it was heavily damaged in a crash and rebuilt at Moorabbin, but crashed again just nine months later while crop spraying. In 1993 it was restored to flight, taking registration VH-RUO in 2000 and making its final flight to Point Cook for the museum in 2003

A1-8 was one of 18 Demons manufactured by Hawker Aircraft Ltd at their Kingston factory and shipped to Australia in 1935. Repaired after an accident in 1936, it was written off after a further crash in early 1937 in bad weather over Tasmania. Accompanying Demon A1-3 suffered the same fate. Some parts were salvaged but it was not until 1977 that remaining elements of the wreck were recovered using an Iroquois helicopter in the wooded mountainous terrain. On 3rd Feb 1987, 50 years to the day of the crash, a fully restored A1-8 was handed over to the RAAF Museum, the pilot even being present too.

This former Varig Dakota with clipped-off tail in one of the various hideous colour scheme it has adorned over the years. Currently it is painted in a blue-white Varig scheme, sort of.

Fazenda Cabangu will certainly ring a bell with those truly interested in aviation history. At this farm, a former coffee plantation, young Alberto Santos Dumont grew up and started tinkering with coffee bean sorting machines. He went to Paris, France after that to become the first to fly around in steerable airships. He also made the first manned flight in Europe in a heavier than aircraft to take off under its own power in September 2006. By then, despite the much debated down-hill-catapulted first flights of the Wright brothers, they had actually flown many times already.

From 1949 to 1953, De Havilland Aircraft constructed eighty single-seat Vampires at the plant in Bankstown, NSW for the RAAF, using the more powerful Rolls-Royce Nene (built by CAC) rather than the Goblin in most Vampires. This is actually A-79-375 (restored using tail and booms from A79-733) painted as A79-876 in the Target Tug black and yellow paint scheme worn in 1955 before it was re-serialled A79-476. Coincidentally the Nene engine fitted is the actual one removed from A79-476. After its flying career it became an instructional airframe at Wagga Wagga and moved to Point Cook in 1977

I suppose this old Bumble Bee must be preserved as it has been placed on top of a containers at this airport in south, central Slovakia.

This is actually CA-16 Wirraway A20-687 which was taken on charge by the RAAF in December 1944 and was modified for target towing. Post-war, it suffered four accidents before disposal to a private buyer in 1960 who may have intended to convert the aircraft for crop spraying. In 1968 it was taken to Moorabbin where over the next eight years a restoration was undertaken to represent a CA-9 Wirraway in the dive-bombing role. Moved on loan to the RAAF Museum in 1977, it was purchased in 1999

Flew with the RAAF and Australian Army from 1973 to 2017.