The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra hosts quite an extensive range of aircraft both military and civil. I was quite surprised by how big their collection is.

The proposal of building a museum started in the year 1973, when a team of aviation enthusiasts wanted to invest their money to keep Australia’s aviation heritage alive. The whole museum project started with buying an old Canberra bomber. Gradually, this fledgling museum started becoming popular with new addition of many artefacts and exhibits by the enthusiastic members.

The museum’s aircraft collection is made up of a large variety of aircraft types that represent many different aspects of aviation.

Military aircraft represent different branches of the Australian armed forces as well as examples from the Royal Air Force , Royal Navy , Republic of Singapore Air Force and Polish Air Force. Passenger aircraft types represent Australian and Papua New Guinean airlines, such as Ansett Airlines and Airlines of Tasmania.

The museum’s collections also represent the war efforts and various accomplishments of the Australian armed forces and navy, with some of them also showing the flight routes, pilot uniforms and the pilot licenses on display.