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Aviation Museum
HARS Parkes Aviation Museum is part of the Historic Aviation Restoration Society[1] and is located at Parkes Airport, In Parkes, New South Wales, Australia[2]. It is currently housed in a former Bellman hangar from the airport's time as a World War Two Royal Australian Air Force base. HARS Parkes is known for being 'hands on' with visitors able to board aircraft such as the Orion[3] and Caribou along with Huey Cobra and Wessex helicopters.
HARS Parkes Aviation Musuem is currently open on Thursdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 3.30pm. The museum's Facebook page advertises additional opening days.
During World War Two and as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme, Parkes airport became RAAF Station Parkes, accommodating No.1 Air Navigation School and No.2 Wireless Air Gunners School, later No.8 Operational Training Unit (Spitfires) and for a period of time during 1944, Central Flying School. After the war No.87 Squadron (Mosquitos) operated from Parkes. Did you know that former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam graduated from Parkes as a Flying Officer navigator?[4]
Following the closure of RAAF Station Parkes in 1946, the accomodation facilities were repurposed into a post-war migrant camp.
Parkes Aero Club, formed in 1948, still operates from its historic ex-RAAF COMMCEN building.
Parkes has been used as a storage facility for the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society since 1975 and has been transformed into an aviation museum in its own right.
Planning has commenced on the construction of a dedicated museum facility at the entrance of Parkes Airport to provide undercover storage and display of aircraft in a dedicated hangar.[5]
Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune A89-302 and De Havilland DH.114 Heron VH – AHB aircraft sitting in a paddock, the future site of the new HARS Parkes museum facility.