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Aeroplane

Type - Aeroplane

Beaufort bomber

Erickson S-64 helicopter

Lady Southern Cross

Miss Southern Cross, G-ACJV

Southern Cross aircraft

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Aeroplane

Avro 504K

World War I biplane aircraft designed by British company AV Roe.

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Beaufort bomber

Twin-engined bomber constructed in Australia between 1939 and 1944.

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Codock

Twin-engined monoplane designed and built by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard and Engineering Company in 1933 for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

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Erickson S-64 helicopter

Helicopter with 10,000 litre water tank built to extinguish fires.

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Lady Southern Cross

Lockheed Altair monoplane built for Charles Kingsford Smith in 1934 and in which he made the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States.

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Miss Southern Cross, G-ACJV

Percival Gull monoplane flown by Charles Kingsford-Smith from London, England to Wyndham, Western Australia, in record breaking solo flight in 1933. The aircraft crashed in Yerranderie in 1934, killing the passenger Leslie Hinks, who was returning to Sydney from Kalgoorlie for his son's funeral.

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Southern Cross aircraft

Fokker FV11b/3M trimotor monoplane flown by Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon & James Warner in the first trans-Pacific flight, from the United States of America to Australia, in 1928. It is now on display in Brisbane Airport.

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