Events
Film Night - Airways Museum
Out of the blue? How aviation accidents shaped safer skies
17 January 2020 7pm
Centred on accidents in the vicinity of Sydney’s Mascot Aerodrome, this movie outlines developments in Australian aviation safety from the 1920s to the 1970s. It combines original research, interviews, archival footage and graphic simulations of civilian and military accidents. Be the first to see this new production before it goes online! Launched by aviation writer James Kightly, enjoy a Q&A with historian Dr Peter Hobbins and producer Steven Pam, plus historic movies from the museum’s collection.
Current Exhibition - People and Planes: A community view of Sydney Airport
Through to January 31st 2020
As the home of Sydney Airport, the Bayside community has a unique and multilayered history to tell. Come and discover local stories or add your own in our latest exhibition/memory hub.
Current Exhibition - Temora Aviation Museum
Through to March 2020
The Temora Aviation Museum is built on the site of the biggest and longest lasting RAAF Elementary Flying Training School during World War II. 10 EFTS was established in May 1941 and training ceased in May 1945. A total of 2741 pilots were trained on Tiger Moths at Temora.
Past Events
Upcoming Talk - UNSW Sydney
11 December 2019 4-6pm
Planetary Social Thought: Spiritual Aeromobility and the Global Phosphorus Crisis.
Speaker: Professor Nigel Clark, Lancaster University
Past Conference - Heritage of the Air 2019
14-17 November 2019
A conference reflecting on 100 years of aviation culture and history, heritage and design in Australia and the region.
Past Exhibition - Airways Museum
Through to November 2019
Australia and the Empire Air Mail Scheme is a photographic display at the Airways Museum. The exhibition runs until November 2019.
Heritage of the Air 2019
14-17 November 2019
The Heritage of the Air Conference will be held from the 14th to 17th of November 2019 at University House, Canberra. The conference will be delivered in partnership with Australia ICOMOS, Airservices, Canberra Modern, Aviation Cultures and the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage. Conference sessions will explore aviation culture, associated heritage, history and design in Australia and the region.
Past Open Day - Airways Museum
16 November 2019
Airways Museum Open Day 10am to 5pm - Theme: The Great 1919 England-Australia Air Race
Archaeology Research Seminar
31 October 2019
Heritage of the Air: modernities/mobilities/materialities.
A seminar that details how Heritage of the Air, through interdisciplinary approaches, aims to explore the diverse assemblages, identities and communities that have both shaped – and been shaped by – Australia’s heritage of the air.
Darwin: Great Air Race Talks Program
October 2019
In the lead up to the centenary anniversary of the Great Air Race, the Northern Territory Library is proud to partner with Darwin Aviation Museum and present two talks as part of a five-part series.
Film Night
10 May 2019
Past talk
12 April 2019
From 700-900 pm, the Cape Banks Family History Society will host a talk by Dr Peter Hobbins, “Crashing into history: aircraft accidents and Sydney’s past”, at the Lionel Bowen Library in Maroubra.
Past talk
10 April
Guest Speaker: Mr John Willis OAM on Gippsland’s Air War of 1918
Past talk
5 February 2019
Dr Peter Hobbins will be presenting to Kensington Combined Probus on “The flying club: what plane crashes tell us about local life at Mascot Aerodrome”, South Sydney Junior Leagues Club, 11 am on 5 February 2019.
Aviation Cultures IV
28 November to 1 December 2018
This fourth conference in the Aviation Cultures series, being held from the 28th of November to the 1st of December 2018, reaches out across the globe. Expanding our previous national and regional focus, we welcome scholars, industry figures and community practitioners from around the world.
Airways Museum Open Day
17 November 2018
Visit the Airways Museum at Melbourne’s Essendon Airport on 17 November 2018 for an open day focused on the 80th anniversary of the Empire Air Mail Scheme. For more information see their Media Release and Poster.
Past presentation
10 October 2018
Wednesday 10 October, 12 noon at the Airways Museum Phil Vabre, Vice-President CAHS presented on Another D.H.86 down: the Lepena accident on Hunter Island.
Past presentation
8 September 2018
Nearly 100 local residents joined Dr Peter Hobbins on 8 September 2018 for his History Week presentation at the Mascot Library, “Death in the air and life on the ground at Mascot Aerodrome.”
Conference presentation
1 September 2018
Dr Peter Hobbins presented a paper, ‘The dark synthetic sky: flying and dying in the analogue atmospheres of flight simulation’, at the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) conference in Sydney on 1 September 2018.
Past seminar
23 August 2018
On Thursday 23 August, ANU anthropologist Dr Jane Ferguson will be speaking at the University of Sydney on ‘An Ethnography to a Hijacking’, focusing on the history of Thai Airways Flight 305 (1990) and its subsequent folklore.
Past seminar
10 August 2018
Join archaeology, museum and heritage studies postgraduate students to hear Dr Peter Hobbins ask ‘What on earth is the archaeology of airspace?’. Friday 10 August, 315–515 pm, Quadrangle S223 (History Room), The University of Sydney.