Aviation Heritage Museum, Aviation and military museum in Bull Creek, Australia
The Aviation Heritage Museum is an aviation museum in Bull Creek that displays military aircraft, civilian planes, replicas, and engines. The objects document Australian aviation development over several decades.
The museum was founded in 1979 when the Western Australian Government provided support for building the original structure. This founding period marked the start of preserving this aviation history for future generations.
The museum is run by the Air Force Association of Western Australia, and its collection grew from a 1959 Supermarine Spitfire Mark 22 displayed on a pole outside the association's Perth headquarters. A 48,000-book library, photo lab, workshop and model repair shop now sit alongside the hangars.
The museum occupies two main hangar buildings plus smaller annexes at the Air Force Association's memorial estate in Bull Creek, south of Perth. The Avro Lancaster and Douglas Dakota are in the second building, opened in 1983. Allow time to move between buildings; the site includes a 48,000-book library, photo lab and workshop.
The museum holds debris from NASA's Skylab, which re-entered the atmosphere in 1979 and came down over Western Australia. Its R-3350 engine is the No. 1 engine of a C-121G Super Constellation registered N421NA, a NASA aircraft that flew between Geraldton and the Carnarvon satellite tracking station during the Apollo programme.
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