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 The last Mirages were withdrawn in 1988 as the F/A-18 Hornet took over.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.

The RAAF Museum's Avro 504K is a replica constructed from the original drawings by Hawker Restorations in the UK in 1999 using original fittings, instruments and Le Rhône engine. It is flyable and was registered G-BYKV. Painted as E3747, it represents one of the 20 received by the Australian Flying Corps in 1919 for the Central Flying School. Only one original Australian Avro 504 survives, E3-4 which was placed at the Australian War Memorial near Canberra as long ago as 1929

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

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

Delivered to Lion Air as PK-LJK in 2012, transferred to Thai Lion Air as HS-LVI in 2019 and back to Lion Air in March 2020. JT520 to Banjarmasin

QG785 from Balikpapan

The local training school comprises Skadron Pendidikan 101 with some 30 Grob G-120s two-seat turboprop trainers and Skadron Pendidikan 102 with the KT-1B

Another of the local Wong-Bees. Discretion is advised when photographing active military aircraft in this part of the world - I made sure I wasn't being watched!

The Indonesian AF Museum is close to the end of the runway at Adisutjipto airport so the busy resident flying school provides lots of aerial activity as the students pound the circuit. The TNI-AU's Skadron Pendidikan 102 have received 17 KT-1s in three batches, seven between 2002 and 2005, five in 2007/8 and seven assembled at Bandung between 2012 and 2014. Four have been lost in accidents. Note the badge and team number of the IAF 'Jupiter' aerobatic team on tail.

In September 1976, the first of sixteen OV-10F COIN aircraft were delivered to SkU.3. Initially serialled in the S-1.. range, they were frequently used in the former Portuguese East Timor from 1977 (together with the A-4E and F-5E) to deal with continued opposition to the occupation which resulted in Timor becoming an Indonesian province. The first F-16s were delivered in December 1989 and replaced the OV-10s in SkU.3, the Broncos then being used to reactivate SkU.1. After accidents in 2005 and 2007, the type was grounded.

The Nu-200 was an Indonesian design for a simple COIN/ground support aircraft first flown in August 1954. According to the plate with the aircraft, three were built, but most sources refer only to this prototype (which may have used the Australian Wackett Trainer as its basis) and a single example of the Nu-225 development which was grounded in 1967. The Nu-200 was placed on display in 2017.

In September 1980, the first Hawk T.53s were delivered to Wing Pendidikan 1 and were operated next to the venerable old L-29s, initially using the LL-53.. serial range, later changed to TT. In 1991, BAe and Indonesian Aerospace (IPTN) signed an agreement for collaborative production of the Hawk and more orders were anticipated, but exports were eventually blocked due to concerns over Indonesian human rights, particularly in East Timor. However in June 1993, the TNI-AU successfully ordered eight Hawk Mk.109s and 16 Mk.209s from BAe, supplemented by 16 additional Mk.209s in 1996

Along with F-5s arriving in April 1980 were 14 A-4Es and two TA-4Hs from surplus IDF/AF stock. They replaced the T-33A with SkU.11. From 1982, SkU.12 was reactivated with a second batch of 16 ex-Israeli A-4s, the best remaining ones being transferred out in 1996 to SkU.11. TT-0440 was 1964-build aircraft BuNo 151110, which served eight different USN units before being struck off charge at Pensacola in 1972 and transfer to Israel. On arrival in Indonesia, put into service with SkU.12 at Pekanbaru AB. Wfu and stored at Adisutjipto AB from 2002. Previously displayed in green/brown camouflage.

Between 1973 and 1975, following the improvement in relations with Australia, 23 second-hand CAC-27 Sabres were donated to replace the MiG-21s with SkU.14 (Iswahjudi AB) that had become unserviceable due to the embargo on spares from the USSR. Five of them were also ex Malaysian. They were initially serialled with an F- prefix.

In April 1980, the first of twelve F-5Es and four F-5Fs arrived for the TNI-AU as replacement for the CAC-27 Sabres with SkU.14. Two were written off but all the others have been preserved.

Delivered new as part of an order for eight from Fokker in November 1976 as T-2707 and reserialled A-2707 in service with SkU.2 at Halim in 1992, grounded June 2012

Repainted in its original colour scheme and serial, the AURI's first Hercules, delivered in 1960 ex 58-0748. Operated by SkU.32 as T-1301 until transferred to Pelita as PK-VHD in 1978, returned in 1982 as A-1301. W/o in a hard landing at Bandung, stored and put on display at the Museum in 2018

Carrying the badge of DUAM, as per the roof titles which translate as 'Military Air Transport Service', this C-47 was delivered to the USAAF as 42-92870 in 1944 and post-war served the RAAF (NEI) and then the ML-KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army AF) as NI-474. It was transferred to KNILM (Royal Dutch Indies Airways) in 1947 as PK-DPE and Garuda in 1949, reregistered PK-GDT in 1957 but at various stages served the military as T-474 in several of the regional conflicts in which Indonesia was involved. In 1982 it carried out a flight marking the anniversary of the armed forces.