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The Airtourer Association will honour the CT-4 at the President's Fly-in in Tamworth from 17 to 19 October, highlighting its significance in military flight training across the Asia-Pacific since the 1970s.
Held at RAAF Base Richmond over the weekend, the event attracted around 80,000 people and featured both static and aerial displays such as the F-35A Lightning II, F/A-18F Super Hornet, E-7A Wedgetail, P-8 Poseidon, and No. 100 Squadron’s heritage aircraft.
Black Hawk A25-112, originally produced by American defence company Sikorsky, was operated by the Australian Defence Force alongside other aircraft seeing operational service in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, East Timor and Pakistan.
The RTAHC, which was closed for renovations in 2020, opened its doors again on 14 August as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of Victory in the Pacific, with its first public open day on the following Sunday.
In an event hosted by the Australian War Memorial late last month, the now-grown passengers of Australian aircraft that carried them as orphaned babies from South Vietnam in April 1975 met the pilots and crew who operated the flights for a commemoration ceremony.
The Avro Lancaster B1 aircraft was flown by the RAAF No. 460 Squadron and completed more than 90 operational missions over Germany and occupied Europe.
