Comments by "" (@joseph-ge5om) on "Australian Military Aviation History" channel.

I worked on the last Avon Sabre, the top hat and cane at 2 AD RAAF Richmond And I also assisted in the sale of a spare Fuselage and 2 engines to what was then called the Confederate Air Force The operational aircraft went to Malaysia
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Original RAF BIDAN Taken overe by the RAAF and called RAAF Bidan and the Range was RAAF Song Song which was our base and the Bombing Range was Song Song we even had a Boat that took us and our supplies called Song Song I was a RAAF Armourer
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@Rod-t9t I was in the RAAF armoury near the air terminal, Building 1970/73and returned home to 36 Squadron A model Hercules and behind us was the Home of the Avon sabre Top hat and Cain
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@douglasdarby7123 we did operate the F4 whilst we were waiting for the Barnes Wallace F111 we have a F4 at the RAAF museum at Point Cook
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I was on 3 Sqn at RAF Butterworth Malaysia and the last aircraft to be serviced at 2AD RAAF Richmond A3-15 in 1986 My troops packed all the spare parts from Dubbo when we sold the Mirage to Pakistan even near the end of its Life in the RAAF a Mirage 111 could do a 600 Knot Vertical clime I also worked on the last Avon sabre and the last DC3 before we sent them to Victoria The Avon Sabre had the Top hat and cane. The Americans purchased one of our sabres and kept calling it an F86. I corrected them and told them it was an Avon Sabre because it had a RR engine and two 3mm Aden Guns instead of the 6 0.5 machine guns Avon Sabre A94-983. was never an F86 because it had a RR engine, hence the word Avon and the Avon was used in the RAAF Canberra
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the British Government sold the mk 9 Hunter to Singapore about 1965
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