Flying Operations Index


The need to regulate flying operations for the safety of all was one of the issues driving the establishment of the Department in 1921 and this is still an important role.

Over the years, the Department has also operated a large number of aircraft in its own right.

 

Select from an index of
Departmental aircraft since 1921

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Registration Markings

Examples:


In the early days officers of the Department made a number of pioneering flights - read Round Australia in 22 Days: 1924 Style

See a strip map of the Melbourne-Adelaide air route - 1939

Read about post-war Flying Doctor services and the formal definition of Mercy Flights

Download a Movie Clip: A Position Report, 1950s-style

The Phonetic Alphabet - Old & New

Read the History of the Departmental Flying Unit

Read about the Department's Flying Unit c. 1980

Read Keeping Us On The Straight And Narrow..., a 1990 article about the Flying Unit's work on navaid calibration.

Read about Flight Survey Operations in Vietnam - 1996

 

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