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A quick visit to Moorabbin.


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I paid a quick trip to Moorabbin today, only the second time since the start of the pandemic. I was shocked at the desecration.

 

The first thing I noticed was that a public road now runs right through where the school I learned to fly at used to be. I learned and got my PPL at Civil Flying School, on Third Avenue. The hangar buildings still appear on the Google maps satellite view of the airport. All the aircraft parking, where I took many aircraft photos, is now a huge warehouse. 

 

Aerial view.

 

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Everything aviation to the left of this street, which now runs through to the DFO shopping centre has been replaced by warehouses.

 

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This is the street that went down to CFS. The new road runs just this side of the warehouse on the left.

 

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This warehouse is on Grange Road, where the aircraft are parked in the blue dotted lie area.

 

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If you look at the Google Earth view of that area from directly above (my copy today 2018) much of that area was still grass or the old tin hangars and not actively used. In theory, with those areas leased, more of the Airport costs should be covered. I'm not saying they'll generously reduce aircraft parking, but their argument to raise prices falls away a bit.

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A couple of additions to the Moorabbin Aircraft Museim since my last visit.

 

Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin

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Evans VP Volksplane VH-DAV

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Pazmany PL-4A

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1 hour ago, red750 said:

I paid a quick trip to Moorabbin today, only the second time since the start of the pandemic. I was shocked at the desecration.

 

The first thing I noticed was that a public road now runs right through where the school I learned to fly at used to be. I learned and got my PPL at Civil Flying School, on Third Avenue. The hangar buildings still appear on the Google maps satellite view of the airport. All the aircraft parking, where I took many aircraft photos, is now a huge warehouse. 

 

Aerial view.

 

YMMB11-2023.thumb.jpg.08580610b1c7b1c87a51a4a9b74b30e3.jpg

 

Everything aviation to the left of this street, which now runs through to the DFO shopping centre has been replaced by warehouses.

 

YMMBFirstSt.thumb.jpg.ec74f846fd08f5b7022059a8b06a3729.jpg

 

This is the street that went down to CFS. The new road runs just this side of the warehouse on the left.

 

IMG_1755.thumb.JPG.d5db3fb30ab1ff2ee1cf6e066de87065.JPG

 

This warehouse is on Grange Road, where the aircraft are parked in the blue dotted lie area.

 

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delivered a few loads of reo when they built that warehouse. a couple of years ago.

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Yes agreed, commercial development has been allowed to encroach so that the airport is now in a very secondary position.  Oxford or CAE as they want to be known now have recently built a new training centre and new onsite accommodation for overseas students, so they at least see value in investing in the airport.

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