Townsville Air Force Base Open Day

Well I woke this morning still buzzing after yesterday's air show, what a magnificent day it was, I checked out of my motel early and had a quick look around the water front before heading up the famous Castle Hill look out.

The drive up is around 4-5klms on a very steep incline but I was really surprised at the amount of people walking up there with families and dogs; I even saw people running up the hill and a guy on a push bike. I got tied just watching them.

After leaving the hill I went and got some breakfast and headed to the designated parking area for the RAAF open day. There I met up with friends from Brisbane and waited for the gates to open, but while we waited we had a Qantas Dash 8 fly over the top of us.

QANTAS DHC-8-402 VH-LQD (CN 4371)

The queue lining up got longer and longer so lucky for us they opened the gates 20 minutes ahead of schedule at 9.40 am.

The amount of aircraft there and the quality of the aircraft there was really exciting and I was like a kid in a chocolate factory.

RAAF BEECH KING AIR 350 A32-437 ( CN FL-437)

RAAF BEECH KING AIR 350 A32-675 (CN FL-675)

ROULETTE PILATUS PC 9A A23-012 (CN 512)

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE F 16 FIGHTING FALCON AF-90 807

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE F 16 FIGHTING FALCON AF-92 893

RAAF HAWK 27-17 A27-17 (CN DT 17)

RAAF FA 18 HORNET A21-108 (CN 392)

RAAF FA 18F  SUPER HORNET A44-202 (AF 2)

RAAF B737 NG ( BOEING E 7A WEDGETAIL) A30-006 (CN 33987)

RAAF C17A GLOBEMASTER III A41-206 (CN F-166)

RAAF ALENIA C-27J SPARTAN A34-001 (CN 4179)

AUSTRALIAN ARMY CHINOOK CH-47F A15-301

AUSTRALIAN ARMY MRH 90 TAIPAN A40-019 (CN TAUA 19)

AUSTRALIAN ARMY BELL UH-1 IROQUOIS A2-488

RAAF KC 30A MRTT A39-002 (CN 951)

NOTICE THE CAMERA'S UNDER THE BELLY

RAAF LOCCKHEED C-130J HERCULES A97-449 (CN 5449)

RAAF AP-3C ORION

MUSTANG (A68-769) VH-MFT (CN 1435) 

RAAF LOCKHEED NEPTUNE P2V-7 A89-273 (CN 7273)

RAAF  PBY-6A CATALINA (A24-362) VH-PBZ (CN 46679)

QANTAS LINK B717-200 VH-YQW (CN 55914)