{"id":7855,"date":"2016-10-29T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/?page_id=7855"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:11:29","slug":"qantas-founders-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/qantas-founders-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Founders Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Qantas Founders Outback Museum<\/strong> tells the history of Australia&#8217;s national airline <strong>Qantas<\/strong>, from its early beginnings in Outback Queensland in the 1920s to present day. Qantas was registered on 16 November 1920 and held its first Board Meeting in Winton in 1921 where it was decided to move operations to <strong>Longreach<\/strong>, <strong>Qld<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qantas Founders Outback Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longreach Airport<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Hudson Fysh Drive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longreach Qld 4730<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/2015\/05\/06\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qfom.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.qfom.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a title=\"info@qfom.com.au\" href=\"mailto:info@qfom.com.au?subject=Enquiry%20from%20QFOM%20website\">info@qfom.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">+61 7 4658 3737<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daily 08:00 &#8211; 13:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closed Christmas Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Admission fee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gift shop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/QantasFoundersMuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/World\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d3748411.807580495!2d142.03811094567598!3d-23.440314!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0xaed28bf53e413214!2sQantas+Founders+Museum!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1477751608456\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aircraft collection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/qantas-founders-museum\/boeing-747-238b-vh-ebq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Boeing-747-238B-VH-EBQ.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing 747-238B VH-EBQ, Qantas Founders Museum\" class=\"wp-image-7856\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>&#8211;<p><\/p>\n<p>VH-XBA<\/p>\n<p>VH-EBQ<\/p>\n<p>VH-EAX<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>VH-UJB<\/p>\n<p>VH-EAP<\/p>\n<p>VH-EAM<\/p><\/td><td>Avro 504K (replica)<p><\/p>\n<p>Boeing 707-138B<\/p>\n<p>Boeing 747-238B<\/p>\n<p>Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina<\/p>\n<p>de Havilland D.H.50 Iris (replica)<\/p>\n<p>de Havilland D.H.61 Giant Moth<\/p>\n<p>Douglas DC-3A Skytrain<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed L1049B Constellation<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Qantas Founders Museum<\/strong> has a variety of interactive displays and exhibits telling the many stories of the airline over its 100-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2019, work began on the construction of a $14.3 million Airpark Roof and Light and Sound Show Project. This project was funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments and is expected to be completed in 2020. The Airpark Roof will provide projection from the sun to Museum visitors and the Museum&#8217;s Boeing <strong>747, 707, DC-3 and Super Constellation<\/strong>. The Light and Sound Show will use state of the art light and sound technology to tell the history of Qantas by projecting onto the fuselage of the Boeing 747, Super Constellation and Boeing 707. The Light and Sound Show is expected to be completed and available to the public in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qantas Founders Museum is excited to announce all visitors coming into the Main Museum Hall will now be able to experience a custom-made mock replica of the 1970s Boeing 747 First Class Retro Lounge. The First Class Upper Deck Lounge was a part of the first B747-200 aircraft Qantas received in 1971 and were later replaced in 1979 by Qantas\u2019s first Business class deck 747 which we have in our collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qantas Founders Outback Museum tells the history of Australia&#8217;s national airline Qantas, from its early beginnings in Outback Queensland in the 1920s to present&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7855","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33235,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7855\/revisions\/33235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}