Central Australian Aviation Museum — Attraction in Araluen

Very interesting airplanes and aviation-related knickknacks. The signage needs an overhaul though. This is a direct quote from one of the signs discussing “populating the Outback”: “…challenges facing the new settlers … the presence and cultural differences of the Australian Aboriginal people. Despite these hardships Australia achieved a commendable record of nation building.” I had to check my phone to make sure the date wasn’t sometime in the 1950s! Boy those inconvenient aboriginals sure were a hardship to that heroic, noble nation building! The museum reeked of terra nullius fiction of the triumph of these Europeans over a land that, in truth, has been continuously inhabited for over 60000 years. If the “presence and cultural differences of Aboriginals” was a hardship to those settlers, imagine how the Aboriginals must have felt to have their ancestral homeland stolen and turned into a tasteless...

TheNomad.family highly recommends a visit to the Central Australian Aviation Museum. For a gold coin, you can see and learn a lot there. Our children really enjoyed it. In addition to the numerous historic aircraft and a flight simulator, there's also a functioning HF radio station for amateurs. It's well worth a visit if you're in...

Visited the site and found a great display. Given that I flew in a DC3 as an eight year old I was transported back to 1960 flying from Innisfail to Townsville. So interesting to see the other aircraft and read the stories. The Kookaburra memorial was something I was not aware of. Great display and the ladies there were...