Posts Tagged ‘DC4’

HARS DC4 Home and on Display

The HARS DC4 completed a successful ferry flight on Monday the 21st December 2009, arriving on time to its new home in Albion Park, NSW. HARS members and visitors were in attendance for the arrival. The DC4 adds to the HARS collection a truly unique and interesting part of Australia’s aviation...

December 30th, 2009 | Douglas DC-4 | Read More

HARS C54 (DC4) to Arrive at HARS 5:00PM, Monday 21st Dec 2009

Following an exhaustive one and a half year interstate restoration effort, the HARS C54 is now ready for its flight to its new home at Illawarra Regional Airport, one hour south of Sydney. HARS members have invested over 5,000 volunteer man hours and their own personal resources, to travel to Archerfield...

December 17th, 2009 | Douglas DC-4 | Read More

DC4 Moves Closer to First Flight

The dedicated HARS DC4 restoration crew were at it again in November with works bringing the first flight closer to reality. HARS members Clive Gibbons, Don Binskin, Roy Finney, Ron McConville, Leon Smith, John Brownjohn, Henry Knight and Frank Purvis all worked hard to change the carby on engine No3,...

November 11th, 2009 | Douglas DC-4 | Read More

DC4 Completes Four Engine Run

The HARS DC4 recovery team have this week achieved an important milestone, with the running of all four engines at Brisbane’s Archerfield Airport. With the first of a series of four engine runs now completed the DC-4 recovery team will focus their energies on the outstanding issues that will...