Individual Articles
Please view the individual Aviation History Pages for other articles related to specific places people or planes.
- Launceston Airport - Opening on 28 February 1931
- Wynyard Airport - Winging into Wynyard
- Mysteries of Aviation – Frederick Valentich and VH-DSJ
- Mysteries of Aviation - De Havilland DH82A "Tiger Moth" VH-AQL
- Mysteries of Aviation - Beech Aircraft Corporation VH-WMD
- Mysteries of Aviation - Captain Stutt and Sergeant Dalzell
- Centenary of Aviation Agriculture
- First Female Pilot in PNG
- Letter from Launceston to UK on the First Airmail Flight in 1931
- Japanese Reconnaissance Flight over Hobart 1942
- World War 1 Tasmanian Aviators of No 1 Squadron
- Bass Strait DC3 Freighter - King Island Beef to Fiji
- Proposals to use Helicopters in Tasmania
- Bert Hinkler Visit to Launceston
- The Introduction of the Rotary Winged Aircraft - The Helicopter
- Victory Loans and the Sunderland Flying Boat in Tasmania
- First Women Pilots
- Tasmanian Glider Club 1929- 1939
- Citizen Airforce Proposal 1937
- First Parachute Jump in Tasmania?
- Aviation Mysteries of Tasmania and Bass Strait
- Demons over Waratah - Two RAAF Hawker Demons crashed near Waratah in NW Tasmania
- Swansea Demons Tragedy - Two spectators killed when RAAF Demon attempted to take off from Swansea Aerodrome
- RAAF Fairey Seaplane Visits to Tasmanian 1924-1926
- Come To Tasmania Promotional Flight
- Tasmanian Airways 1934 - 1935
- Swansea Deamon Tragedy No 2
- Latrobe Aerodorme 1931 - 1944
- Tasmanian Aero Club Part 1 1927 - 1939
- First Flight in Tasmania - Delfosse Badgery 1914
- Smithton Aerodrome 1931 - 1944
- The DH.86 Miss Hobart Tragedy
The Fate of the Halberstadt CL 11 - A Tasmanian WW1 Trophy
Paul Richards and Iain Pinkard have delved into some of the interesting stories about Tasmanian Aviation in this book.
In June 1918 at Flesselles in France, a German Halberstadt CL II Aircraft, number 15342/17 was forced to land by Lieutenants Armstrong and Mart of No 3 Squadron Australian Flying Corps. This particular aircraft was fully intact and represented a prized WW1 war trophy. It was proposed that the plane be presented to Tasmania.
The story behind the capture of the plane and what we know about its fate is presented in this book.
Additionally, the later chapters describe some of the early Tasmanian Aviation Pioneers, Vale’s Aeroplane, The Tasmanian Aero Club and Tasmanian Airline Services in the 1930, and the role the Holyman’s played in Tasmanian and Australian Aviation.
The book is available here: