Australian War Memorial
Treloar Cres
Canberra, ACT 2612
+61 2 6243 4211
Daily 10:00 – 17:00
Closed Christmas Day
Free admission
Gift shop
Aircraft collection
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Albatross DVa Avro 504K Avro Lancaster Mk.1 Bell 47G-3B-1 Bristol (DAP) Beaufort Mk.VIII Commonwealth CA-5 Wirraway Curtis P-40E Kittyhawk de Havilland Mosquito Mk.41 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Caribou General Dynamics RF-111C Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 Lockheed Hudson Mk.4A McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/U4 Messerschmitt Me-163 Messerschmitt Me-262 A2A Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15bis Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar North American Rockwell OV-10A Bronco North American P-51D Mustang Pfalz D.XIII Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a |
The Australian War Memorial consists of three parts: the Commemorative Area (shrine) including the Hall of Memory with the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier, the Memorial’s galleries (museum) and Research Centre (records). The Memorial also has an outdoor Sculpture Garden.
ANZAC Hall is a large annexe to the upper level of the Memorial, used for the display of large military hardware. Notable displays on the west side include a complete and particularly historic Lancaster bomber known as G for George, The wrecks of M-14 and M-21 reconstructed to form a Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine as both were sunk during the raid on Sydney Harbour in 1942, rare German aircraft such as the Me 262 and Me 163, One of the main guns each from HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden, The east side includes a World War I aircraft exhibition, notably displaying a Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a, Pfalz D.XII and Albatros D.Va, among others These aircraft are accompanied by a movie directed by Peter Jackson titled “Over the Front” highlighting the formation of the Australian Flying Corps.
There have been aircraft in the Memorial’s collection from the very beginning. Today the War Memorial contains a number of classic aircraft on permanent display. An F/A-18 Hornet is scheduled to join the collection in the near future.
Aircraft in storage facility at Mitchell
Westland Wessex N7-226 (WA226)
General Dynamics RF-111C A8-134
Bell OH-58A Kiowa A17-054
Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk N24-003
Douglas Dakota Mk IV A65-71 (43-49870)
Gloster Meteor F.8 A77-368
de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth A17-704
CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk 32 A94-954
Fairey Firefly AS.6 WJ109
CH-47D Chinook A15-202
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis
Deperdussin Type A CFS5
English Electric (GAF) Canberra Mk.20 A84-247
Pilatus PC-6/B1-H2 Turbo Porter A14-690
de Havilland (Canada) DHC-4 Caribou A4-140
Lockheed C-130H Hercules A97-010 (nose section)
Bell 47G-3B-1 Sioux A1-404
Bell UH-1H Iroquois A2-773
Eurocopter AS350B Squirrel N22-017
Tachikawa Ki-54 ‘Hickory’ (unknown id)
Lockheed AP3-C Orion aircraft A9-659
With the imminent building work taking place at the AWM, we expect that many of the aviation exhibits will moved to the Treloar facility.
Photo Les Spearman