Old Station Flyin (YOSN) May 2025. Who will be there and post your aircraft image.

[Garfly]

These panning shots from the hill (posted on YouTube) show the scale of the event.

 

 

 

[BrendAn]

6 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

I stand to be corrected:

 

I am sure I read an article, many many years ago, about this aircraft type being developed specifically for flying over the Amazon jungle. Open areas for forced or deliberate landing few & far between. They are purely for low level, warm climate, observation (wildlife?) patrols.😈

Designed for national geographic to do a tv series in the Congo. It's in the link above.

[Blueadventures]

13 hours ago, rodgerc said:

Aircam VH-ZEK came across from Perth to attend….A long way to fly at 75kts

Standing next to the AirCam it's lie a Drifter on a triple dose of steroids.

[Nevan Pavlinovich]

Hi gents. Im Nevan and own the Aircam at Old Station. 

The aircaft was built in the USA in 2000 then spent a few years in Costa Rico before going to Mexico. It appears the plans to use it for banner towing came to nilch and it spent 10 years in storage there. It then went back to the USA in 2019 and was rebuilt at the Lockwood Factory which included adding the Dynon EFIS. 

It finally arrived in Melbourne in Jan25 and was re-assembled in Tyabb. Total time as of today is only 500hrs. 

There are two other Aircams in Australia, both of them on floats in Mt Isa and Melbourne, and two kits under construction in Temora and Adelaide.

Im idly bouncing my way back to Perth, probably over the top end. 

Its a great aircraft on floats but all the salt water in WA turns love into a labour - so wheels it is. 

I cruise along at 70mph and 20 lph (total) - so low and slow and enjoy the world slipping by. 

Takeoff is 3secs and about 30m so its a thrill to fly and asymmetrics are a non event. 

Thanks for taking an interest. 

Edited Wednesday at 12:36 PM by Nevan Pavlinovich

[rodgerc]

8 hours ago, Nevan Pavlinovich said:

I cruise along at 70mph and 20 lph (total) - so low and slow and enjoy the world slipping by. 

20L/h….That’s remarkable. Thanks for the insights Nevan. Safe flight.