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    Airframe Family: Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) CA-1/CA-3/CA-5/CA-7/CA-8/CA-9/CA-10/CA-16 Wirraway
    Latest Model:CA-16 Wirraway
    Last Military Serial:A20-652 RAAF
    Construction Number:1104
    Last Civil Registration:VH-WIR
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a CA-16.

    4 July 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A20-652.

    11 June 1959

    To Horsham Foundry.

    23 May 1960

    To CAC.

    January 1964


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Wirraway A20-652 parked in the back garden of the Fleet Wings Service Station at Laverton, Victoria in January 1964. This had been acquired two months earlier for 40 GB Pounds when CAC at Fishermans Bend disposed of 37 Wirraways in storage for rebuilding as CA-28 Ceres. Ceres production however was terminated in 1963 after only 20 aircraft had been completed.

    19 September 1964

    Placed on display outside of a service station at Pascoe Vale Victoria Australia.

    1986


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1986 photo at Nowra

    26 August 1986

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-WIR.

    Painted silver with a black anti glare panel yellow stripes around the wings and fuselage Kangaroo roundels on the sides.

    From 2009 to 2010

    Based at Parafield Airport, Adelaide, South Australia.
    The aircraft resided at Parafield and was flown regularly.
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    18 December 2010

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
    A20-652 was flown from Parafield to Caloundra Qld by Matthew Denning. It became the first aircraft for the Queensland Air Museum to fly in to Caloundra on delivery to the museum -Following a flying display it was handed over to the museum at Caloundra.
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    29 January 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the Queensland Air Museum located at Caloundra Airport in Queensland, Australia.
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