Fighter World facts for kids
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Fighter World is an Australian aviation museum. Its purpose is to preserve the history of fighter operations of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and it has a large collection of aircraft, most of which are fighters once operated by the RAAF. It is located at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle, New South Wales.
Aviation collection
Australian
- RAAF Gloster Meteor A77-875
- RAAF de Havilland Vampire A79-1
- RAAF Avon Sabre A94-951
- RAAF Avon Sabre A94-959
- RAAF CAC Winjeel A85-428
- RAAF Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile
- RAAF Aermacchi MB-326H A7-062
- RAAF Dassault Mirage IIIO A3-3
- RAAF Dassault Mirage IIID A3-102
- RAAF General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark A8-148
- Royal Australian Navy GAF Jindivik target drone N11-750
International
- Royal Air Force/Republic of Singapore Air Force Hawker Hunter
- Polish Air Force Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21UM 'Mongol B' painted as a member of the Indian Air Force Red Scorchers aerobatic team
Replica
- Fokker Dr.I Triplane (Two-thirds replica painted as Josef Jacobs's aircraft of the Luftstreitkräfte)
- Boeing-Stearman Model 75 (One-third scale replica painted as a Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft of the Empire Air Training Scheme)
- Messerschmitt Bf 109F (Replica painted as the aircraft of Oberleutnant Carl Hans Roders of the Luftwaffe)
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII (Replica painted as a No. 79 Squadron RAAF aircraft)
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI (Replica painted as a No. 127 Squadron RAF aircraft)
- Bristol Beaufighter cockpit (Replica painted as the nose of A19-50 'Wendy Joy II' of No. 30 Squadron RAAF)
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