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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) Winjeel
Image: CAC Winjeel Model
Source: Museum Victoria
In March 1949, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) received a contract to build two primary trainer prototypes to replace the Tiger Moth and Wirraway in RAAF service. Designed by J.C. Humphries and Ian Ring at CAC, the first machine designated the CA-22 flew in February 1951. The aircraft was intended to be powered by a CAC Cicada engine but production aircraft were fitted with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior engine. The design of the tail was altered to allow the aircraft to spin as the first design was too stable to allow spinning which was not desirable in a training machine.
The revised aircraft was put into production as the CA-25 Winjeel (an aboriginal word meaning 'young eagle') and deliveries began in 1955. A total of 62 Winjeels were built by CAC and they served mostly with No. 1 Basic Flying Training School (later No. 1 Flying Training School) at Uranquinty, NSW and then later at Point Cook, Victoria after the School moved location in 1958. The Winjeel was replaced as the RAAF's basic trainer by the CT4A Airtrainer in 1975 but some aircraft were used in the Forward Air Control role at RAAF Base Williamtown, NSW until 1994. A number remain airworthy with private owners.
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Aeroplane Model - CAC Boomerang, Flying Model
Aircraft History The Boomerang is a remarkable example of Australian adaption and innovation in response to a crisis. In December 1941, the outbreak war with Japan exposed an almost to ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 0 -
Aeroplane Model - CAC Winjeel
A 1:30 scale model donated to the Museum in 1954 by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation along with several other models of CAC aircraft types displayed at the 1953 Jubilee of Flight e ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 13 -
Recipe Book - CAC. Pressure Cooker, Instructions & Recipes, circa 1947
Book of instructions and recipes for the CAC Pressure Cooker manufactured by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Lorimer Street, Fishermans Bend, Melbourne. CAC was formed in 1936 as ...
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Aeroplane Model - CAC Mustang
Aicraft History The Mustang was built as a private venture by the US manufacturer North American Aviation. Company designers Raymond Rice and Edgar Schmued produced the design concept ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 16 -
Aeroplane Model - CAC CA-15
Aircraft History Having designed and built the stop-gap Boomerang fighter in 1942, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) at Port Melbourne responded to RAAF Specification 2/42 fo ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 13 -
Aeroplane Model - CAC Wirraway
Aircraft History Australia's defence capability was a matter of serious concern by the mid-1930s as Japanese military aggression in China signalled confrontation with the western power ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 14 -
Aeroplane Model - North American P-51K Mustang
This 1:16 scale sectioned model was commissioned by the Museum and built by Mr B.D Hede in 1968. It represents A68-565 a US-built P-51K-10-NT Mustang flown by the RAAF. This aircraft w ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Aeroplane Model - CAC Boomerang
This 1:30 scale model is painted in a silver scheme with black anti-glare panel and post-war roundels. It carries the serial number A46-47 which represents a Boomerang which served with ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 12 -
Aero Engine - CAC Avon Mk. 26, CAC Sabre, 1955
The Rolls-Royce Avon was one of the first commercially and technically successful axial flow jet engines to be developed in Britain. Most British jet engine development had been focused ...
From: Port Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Aeroplane Model - CAC CA-6 Wackett Trainer
This 1:30 scale model was donated to the Museum by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in 1954. It was one of a group of models donated by CAC representing the aircraft built by the c ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 17
