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Specifically I'd really like to know what will be there in relation to jet warbirds e.g. Meteor, Canberra.

If you could that would be great. Personally I'm quite looking forward to this as there will be a lot of aircraft that I haven't seen before (even if the attendence is not that great compared to previous years), or for a very long time.

Thanks for the welcome all!

It seems a Qantas A380 will be on display but only until midday Saturday, whereas the new Virgin 777 will be on Sunday. Then a Qantas 747-400 will be on display all day Sunday. http://www.airshow.net.au/avalon2009/PDFs/AS2009-QantasA380-and-Virgin777-020309.pdf

Howsit all, I'm a NZer now residing in Melbourne. I moved here almost exactly a year ago, but it seems so much shorter than that. I'm an aviation enthusiast with a preference for military aircraft - modern, old, whatever. I don't have a pilots license, its one of those things I always meant to do...I try to go to airshows when I can. Anyhow hello to you all.

Yep, but there sgould be another one next year. But if they shifted the Avalon one to there, then there would be one each year...not a bad thing, perhaps unless you live there

There is an airshow at Point Cook airbase (I think it is called something else? But it is where the RAAF museum is) that is in the years that the Avalon airshow isn't.

Could be held at Point Cook?

Thanks, I'm a Kiwi that has flown the coup. I was looking through this thread and saw a post earlier with the USAF and RAAF potential attendees. However I am wondering what the other attendees are? e.g what are some of the warbirds and civillian aircraft flying. I have been surprised that for such a late stage there is virtually no information on aircraft attending etc. Is this normal for this airshow?

Hi all New to these forums (and this country). I will be going to this for the first time. looking forward to it regardless of what is there. I've wanted to make it sinnce I first heard of the Australian Bicentennial Airshow when i was a teenager.