Museum Move to Camden Airport

on Indefinite Delay

For more than 3 years, the Australian Aviation Museum

has been planning a move to Camden Airport.

This move was precipitated by the acquisition of a large

area of the South West corner of Bankstown Airport by a

company planning to develop the area for Commercial use.

The new Museum was designed in the unique shape of an

aircraft (see above) with many hours and thousands of

dollars already spent on engineering plans.

As our Museum was located in the centre of this planned

development, the company agreed to fund the building of a

new Museum Complex at Camden Airport.  This move was

applauded by Camden Council, who some time ago asked the

Museum to consider Camden as a base to encourage

Tourism in the rapidly expanding Macarthur area.

Last week the Museum was stunned to be advised that

the development company has been placed in Receivership,

owing a considerable amount of money and effectively

putting our future expansion plans on indefinite delay.

We are left with the Museum totally surrounded by earthworks

which block access to the active runways. Had this work not

taken place, our Museum would have been home to the

Catalina owned by the Catalina Flying Memorial, while being

converted to WWII "Black Cat" configuration.

Fortunately we have several years of our Lease with BAL

(Bankstown Airport Limited) left to run, so for the time being we will

put all of our efforts into making the Museum the best we can on our

current site . 

Please be assured that the Australian Aviation Museum

is still fully operational and actively seeking more Volunteers,

particularly in the areas of Computers, Auto Mechanics,

Retail Sales and Museum Display.

We also warmly welcome anyone with an interest in Aviation.