Press Release

Australian Aviation Museum on the move…

After long negotiations with Bankstown Airports Limited (BAL) and Developers Devco,

the Australian Aviation Museum, located on Bankstown Airport, South West of Sydney

will move to Camden Airport early 2010. The land currently occupied by the Museum

will be used for Industrial and Retail development.

Camden Council have expressed delight at having the Australian Aviation Museum

in their electorate and will promote it as a major tourist attraction.

The unique new Museum Complex will take the shape of an aircraft

The Museum has already been featured favourably on a number of occasions in the Macarthur area Press.
The new complex will be more than twice the size of the current Museum, and will consist of three buildings –

a modern building in the shape of an aircraft (as shown above) housing aircraft displays, historic aviation

memorabilia, flight simulators, paintings, photographs and a coffee lounge overlooking the operational runways.

A second building will be used for aircraft restoration, allowing visitors to see

restoration work taking place on a number of historic and rare aircraft.

A third building will be the reconstruction of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s

actual 1930s hangar, once located on Mascot Aerodrome.

This will be used to display historic aircraft of the period and house a tribute to

the late Nancy-Bird Walton AO, OBE, a beloved Patron of the Museum for 15 Years.

Two very unique features of the new Museum will be a full size Boeing 747-400 Film Set,

originally built for Mission Impossible II and currently in use for TV Commercials

and Feature Films, as well as a full size replica of a Space Shuttle Cockpit, also designed for film work.

Both will be available for viewing by the public and later fitted out as flight simulators for young and old to enjoy.
 
Contact Trevor Dean, Curator on 0408 439 274 (aviationmuseum@bigpond.com) for further details.