Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Qantas Foundation Memorial Catalina VH-EAX Touches Down at Longreach Airport Wednesday


As mentioned on the Blog yesterday, The Qantas Foundation Memorial (QFM), which operates the Qantas Founders Outback Museum at Longreach in Central Western Queensland, finally took delivery of Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina VH-EAX on Wednesday 14 September.

The Catalina is ex EC-EVK and was noted arriving into Darwin from Denpasar over this past weekend.

The Catalina vintage flying boat made its final landing and will be retired as an exhibit at the Qantas Founders Outback Museum. It will be restored to original camouflage colours and will illustrate the role Qantas pilots played during World War II, and also reveal the details of the rare and secret Order of the Double Sunrise.

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