Australian Aviation Hall of Fame

Name: Australian Aviation Hall of Fame
Address: Shellharbour Airport, 54 Airport Road, Albion Park Rail, NSW, 2527, AU
Telephone: +61242574333

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Recognising Australian Aviation's Founders & Heroes

22/06/2026

Despite being one of the greatest long-distance aviators Australia has ever produced, Lores Bonney remains one of our most under-celebrated. Let's change that! Do you know her story?

15/06/2026

The Australian Aviation Hall of Fame acknowledges with profound sadness, the passing of one of Australia’s most respected aviation journalists, Geoffrey Thomas.

Geoff’s career spanned for more than 4 decades covering aviation stories for print media, radio, and television, and included his dedicated coverage of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappearance.

In honour of his remarkable life, please take a moment to read our latest post at www.aahof.com.au/news

10/06/2026

98 years ago TODAY, the Southern Cross completed its journey; touching down in Sydney and making history official. ✈️

Smithy and Ulm, never underachievers, crossed & landed the Pacific twice.

08/06/2026

We've featured a few of Australian aviation's greatest stories over the past weeks, and now we'd like to ask you: which aviation story impacted you the most?

Comment below! ⬇️ 💬

05/06/2026

Australia’s very first cross-country flight was achieved by a newly licensed Billy Hart, as featured on Wednesday. On the 19 minute journey, Billy was joined by his teenage brother, as they flew en route to a breakfast with their father.

Certainly a way to make an entrance! ✈️

03/06/2026

It's a Wednesday, so let's get a little wild. Australia's very first aviator, who built his own aircraft from scratch, was known as 'Parramatta's Flying Dentist'. Imagine the excitement locals felt seeing their dentist take to the sky!

30/05/2026

Tomorrow marks 97 years since Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm climbed into the Southern Cross, and embarked on an "impossible" journey.

The crew overcame their lack of seatbelts and leaking windshield, to cross the Pacific in one of Australian aviation's greatest moments.

Swipe to learn the story, and to read more, visit www.aahof.com.au 🌏

26/05/2026

Long before the Duigan Brothers and their Duigan Aeroplane, Aboriginal Australians conceptualised the principles of flight; lift, drag & rotation. While it would take thousands of years for the world to catch up, the boomerang is a cultural icon and evidence of early aerospace engineering.

This National Reconciliation week, we recognise the profound knowledge First Nation people carried long before aviation had a name 🌅

22/05/2026

Everyone knows Smithy. But who was beside him?

Meet Charles Ulm. Co-pilot, and a man who helped make aviation history without ever getting quite enough of it.

Nine days before their flight, the pair had no idea they were about to pull off the impossible. The first ever transpacific flight was just days away.

Next Saturday marks 97 years since the Southern Cross touched down in Brisbane. Stay tuned as we celebrate the legends who made it happen! 🛩️

20/05/2026

We’re over halfway through May, and that means we’re closer to one of Australian aviation’s most important historical moments. Kingsford Smith's almost 12,000km journey was the first-ever trans-pacific flight, making history on May 31st, 1928 ✈️

To read his story in advance, visit www.aahof.com.au/inductees 📖

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Shellharbour Airport, 54 Airport Road
Albion Park Rail, NSW
2527

Telephone

+61242574333

Website

http://www.aahof.com.au/

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