Now all our Chinese friends can scan our UWAI smart decal with their smartphones and learn all about us in their own language…
This smartphone app was launched by the SA Tourism Minister Leon Bignell on 8 September to help Chinese visitors navigate their way through SA’s tourism venues. We are very happy to be part of the network and look forward to welcoming more Chinese friends!
SAAM is making great progress on its restoration of the CC-1 replica, with the wings and tail surfaces patched/re-covered and re-attached to the aircraft.
The CC-1 is a replica of Clyde Cessna’s first design, built by Gordon Lewis and his engineers at Rossair from original plans in 1966 for the National Air Show. It was donated to SAAM by Gordon’s family a couple of years ago – so restoration is taking a little longer than the original build!
Put Sunday 29th October in your diaries…
Our action-packed program for the big day is now on our Events Page, or just click the icon to download it!
Our Septe
mber newsletter is available for download – just click on the front page image.
This issue features a warts-and-all profile of Captain Nobby Buckley by Paul Divett from our History Group. It’s a fascinating story and a very good read.
SAAM’s new display hangar, part funded through the Australian Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund, was officially opened on behalf of the Commonwealth by Senator for South Australia Senator David Fawcett on Wednesday 30th August.
About 90 members and invited guests were on hand to hear SAAM President Pieter van Dyk, Mayor Gary Johanson of the Port Adelaide Enfield Council and Senator Fawcett address them. Senator Fawcett unveiled a commemorative plaque to officially open the hangar, and then toured the new hangar and the museum’s just completed Caribou display with other guests. They were also able to see the partially assembled Kiowa received from Defence Disposals just two days earlier. Our guests then joined us for a light lunch.
Among the guests were Mayor Gary Johanson, Bob Ahrens, Air Commodore Vincent (Joe) Lervasi, Jim Whalley and Roger Lang – all good friends of the museum.
Pictured is SAAM’s President, Pieter van Dyk, introducing Senator Fawcett to assembled guests.
Kiowa A17/
010 was loaded at Damascus Barracks on Friday and arrived safely at SAAM this afternoon (28 August).
SAAM volunteers unloaded the aircraft including tailboom, rotors and a case of parts, and it is now placed adjacent to Caribou A4-225 in our new display hangar.
Next – reassembly and restoration!
Kiowa A17-010, courtesy of Defence Disposal’s excellent program to give museums opportunity to acquire and preserve defence heritage to display for present and future generations, was loaded at Damascus Barracks Brisbane today. As well as the fuselage, the main rotors and tail boom and various other parts are on the truck.
All going well, it will be available for viewing in its present dismantled state at our Official Opening on 30th August – see here for the program: http://www.saam.org.au/events/
We then have the job ahead of us to re-assemble the aircraft using the parts supplied, supplemented with other necessary parts we are sourcing from the Bell JetRanger shell we recently acquired and possibly from other museums in the network that received other Kiowa airframes.
A17-010 will be a great addition to our collection.
Our August newsletter is another big issue with lots of good reading…
Click the image at left to download or, to browse back issues, go the our Newsletters pager here http://www.saam.org.au/news/newsletters/
