Evans Head Heritage Aviation Museum (F111 Museum) — Attraction in Evans Head

The F111 museum in Evans Head is a fantastic aviation museum that has a wide range of military aircraft on display. The centre piece of course is a lovingly restored F111, but many other aircraft from different eras are also on display. I especially liked that adults and kids can enter some of the exhibits and experience the sometimes cramped conditions inside old military aircraft, to get a sense of all the buttons, dials and instruments. Our four year old daughter loved the Caribou!

The museum also offers information panels, specs, history and other interesting items that relate to the aircraft, RAAF history and the Evans Head Aerodrome.

The museum is run entirely by knowledgeable and kind volunteers and we were lucky enough to get a tour of the F111 with Joel who used to work on this type in the RAAF. He has a wealth of knowledge and many interesting anecdotes to tell about this plane. Definitely visit here when you're...

Second time visiting because we really enjoyed it last time, will not be back again. Was very disappointed this time. If you have young kids don't bother. Younger man yelled at my son because he skipped excitedly to the toy section and told me off too. We have been travelling Australia for 3 months and this was extremly disappointing. We felt very unwelcome, stayed about 15 mins and left. He didn't try to engage with us at all just asked our postcode despite us being the only ones in the place in the middle of school holidays. I get it's a museum but he didn't need to be so...

Stumbled across this accidentally, and so glad we did! A very interesting part of Australian aviation history, also an opportunity to get up close to the F-111 "Flying Pig" which not only served for a long time in the RAAF, but also did the glorious " dump and burn" fly-by at Brisbane's Riverfire event many years ago. The place is run and maintained by volunteers who are passionate about aviation and preserving this part of Australian history, and receive no funding from Government or Council. Support this...