P-51 Crash Lands....10km from my house.

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Yeah maybe 'crash' was too strong of a word. That aerodrome is RAAF Base Williams at Point Cook. Every so often I take my sons for a visit. They have a small but great museum there with a de Havilland Vampire F.30, A-20, F-4E Phantom plus a Avro 504K AND the best thing I've seen is they're currently restoring a de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI - A52-600 very cool.

I like going there during the Sunday afternoon, usually it's quieter then. You get the see some old planes get moved around. I had the pleasure of speaking to a chap, who is a volunteer now, who flew the above mentioned Vampires and his fondest memory was flying over Point Cook beach, 3m off the deck, scaring the crap out of a RAAF work crew clearing the beach front to the base. I've been meaning to see him again as he was also a P-51 pilot but signed up during the Korean War.