The CAC Wirraway is a training and general purpose military aircraft manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1939...
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the company initially pursued the development and production of the CAC Wirraway, a single-engine armed advanced trainer aircraft which was a licence-built...
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the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1959 and 1963. The aircraft was a development of the Wirraway trainer of World War II. In the 1950s...
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NA-16; with CAC's modifications this became the Wirraway. CAC also undertook production of the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 engine used in the Wirraway and also...
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Queensland Air Museum (section CAC Wirraway A20-652)
Aircraft Corporation's Wirraway has been described as the aircraft that established a viable Australian aircraft industry. The Wirraway was essentially a license...
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NA-16-2K Two-seat fighter - produced under licence in Australia as the CAC Wirraway. NA-16-3 Two-seat light attack bomber. The first aircraft in this category...
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retractible undercarriage) along with a manufacturing license. The first CAC Wirraway, based on the NA-33, flew on 27 March 1939, of which 755 were built.: 52–53 ...
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The CAC Sabre, sometimes known as the Avon Sabre or CA-27, is an Australian variant of the North American Aviation F-86F Sabre fighter aircraft. The F-86F...
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Aircraft in fiction (section CAC Wirraway)
long-running mission in his C-130J. A restored Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway, an Australian production variant of the North American NA-16 Harvard,...
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positively dangerous to all but the best pilots, like the He 162. CAC Wirraway CAC Boomerang VL Humu VL Myrsky Caudron C.714 Designed as a wooden lightweight...
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that was designed and constructed by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) during World War II. The order for the Woomera was cancelled before it became...
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The CAC Wackett Trainer was the first aircraft type designed in-house by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation of Australia. The name was derived from...
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in 1941–42, and was in the process of converting from lightly-armed CAC Wirraway trainers to Brewster F2A Buffalo fighters, when hostilities began. These...
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Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp (redirect from CAC R-1340)
Boeing F3B Boeing F4B Boeing P-12 Boeing P-26 Peashooter Boeing P-29 CAC Ceres CAC Wirraway Curtiss Falcon Curtiss F7C Seahawk Curtiss O-52 Curtiss P-6S Hawk...
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AC.77 issued in 1948. Designed to replace both the Tiger Moth and the CAC Wirraway, the first two prototype CA-22 aircraft were flown in February 1951....
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1935 4,422 Bristol F.2 Fighter UK 1916 5,329 CAC Wirraway Australia 1937 755 CAC Woomera Australia 1941 2 CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder China/Pakistan 2003 Operational...
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John Lerew, had little offensive capability with only 10 lightly armed CAC Wirraway training aircraft and four Lockheed Hudson light bombers from No. 24...
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The CAC CA-15, was an Australian propeller-driven fighter aircraft designed by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) during World War II. Due to...
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and near the town comprised No. 12 Squadron, which was equipped with CAC Wirraway advanced trainers (which had been pressed into service as fighters),...
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Corporation CAC Boomerang CAC Woomera CAC Wirraway CAC Wackett CAC CA-15 List of aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force Hill, Brian (1998). Wirraway to Hornet:...
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September 2012). "CAC Wirraway Technical Details". Design Bureau. Retrieved 5 February 2018. Info from a page about the CAC Wirraway, similar to the Harvard...
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NA-16; shortly afterwards it was re-equipped with the Australian-built CAC Wirraway and switched to an army co-operation role. In August 1940, the squadron...
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aerobatic pilot, Alexandru Papană's markings. CAC Boomerang - Under restoration in Australia CAC Wirraway Cierva C.30A Autogiro Consolidated B-24J Liberator...
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The CAC Mustang is an Australian variant of the North American P-51 Mustang. It was built under license by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in the final...
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the Caboolture Warplane Museum (with operational P-51 Mustang, CAC Wirraway and CAC Winjeel aircraft), skydiving club, and the Beaufort Restoration group...
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15 Avro Anson 8,488 3,197 11,685 Bristol Buckmaster 112 112 CAC Wackett 202 202 CAC Wirraway 755 755 de Havilland Don 30 30 de Havilland Moth Minor 100...
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fourteen others were seriously injured as a result of the accident. CAC Wirraway Serial Number A20-212 of the Royal Australian Air Force had been circling...
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injuries. 30 May – Airshow at Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. A vintage CAC Wirraway crashed during the display, killing pilot Owen O'Malley and observer...
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Wales, and operated CAC Wirraway and Avro Anson aircraft. The Ansons were phased out in July 1941, and the school became an all-Wirraway unit. In 1942 the...
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Originally equipped with Demons and De Havilland Moths, it converted to CAC Wirraways in September and relocated to Canberra later that month. On 20 May 1942...
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