Greta Road, Wangaratta Airport
Wangaratta, Victoria 3677| Australia
Location
Wangaratta is a town in Victoria about 45 min's from
Albury. Air World was based at Wangaratta airport,
just outside the town.
Collection Background
Air World was first located at Wodonga in the
1970s (Wodonga is just across the border from Albury). The RAAF
Museum's Mosquito was based there before the museum shifted to
Wangaratta. Drage's had a museum in Wodonga (across the Murray River from Albury) back in the 1970s, which was then shifted to Wangaratta and later known as "Air World".
The Air World collection featured some
very historic Pacific World War II aircraft. After closing many
of these were sold or relocated when the museum closed in in
2002, The Air World facility
has become home to Precision
Aerospace's Pacific Fighters Museum which is currently
restoring a number of historic WWII Pacific aircraft.