The ABC brings word that the War Memorial is going to take delivery of a retiring Caribou transport aircraft.
I’m pretty sure I can remember hearing these things were being retired around 1990, so it’s nice the air force has finally gotten around to doing it.
This one has apparently seen service in Vietnam, Timor and Bouganville. (Hopefully the bit of Bougainville where we were bringing peace, not the dirty-war period we’ve never fully coughed to).
They’ve been museum pieces for a very long time so it’s fitting one finally ends up in a museum.