Australian aviation history digital archive

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In its mission to preserve and promote Australia’s aviation heritage, the AHSA hosts the following digital archives. Click on the image to go to the selected archive.

CAC Factory Reports 1937 – 1943

1919 Captain Henry Wrigley and Sergeant Arthur William Murphy departed from Charleville, Queensland and flew to Tambo Wednesday 26 November 1919 on the eighth leg of an aerial survey of a suitable route from Melbourne to Darwin. Flying in the single-engined Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2e B6183, their northerly route of approximately 140km followed the Ward River. After a brief stop in Tambo, they continued in a north-westerly direction along the Barcoo River to Blackall, flying approximately 90km. They then continued another 160km to Longreach. Source: Tom Lockley, Wrigley and Murphy: Australia’s First Transcontinental Flight; AHSA (NSW) Inc., 2009.