Temora Supermarine Spitfire Temora, New South Wales, Australia
By
Black Bunny on 26-Jan-21. Waypoint GA20285
Cache Details
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| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S34° 25.010' E147° 31.036' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 547534E 6191503N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 277 m |
| Local Government Area: | Temora |
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Description
Temora Supermarine Spitfire
The Temora Aviation Museum is an Australian aviation museum located in Temora, New South Wales. The Museum was established in late 1999, based on the collection of warbird aircraft owned by David Lowy. Lowy remains the President and Founder of the Museum, which is overseen by a four-member Governing Committee.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI Rego: VH-XVI Military S/N: TB863
This Supermarine Mk XVI Spitfire is an ex-wartime example, built at Vickers Armstrong’s Castle Bromwich “shadow factory”, near Birmingham, in late 1944.
The aircraft’s first action was on 24 March (wearing squadron code FU-P) when, laden with two 250lb bombs and a long range belly tank, the aircraft headed a flight of four Spitfires for an armed reconnaissance; briefed to bomb rail targets in the Utrecht/Hague/Leiden area. TB863’s cannons were fired in anger for the first time during a strafing attack on a large railway coach by the four, claimed as probably destroyed, before returning to altitude. The aircraft continued with these sorties flying twelve missions during its six weeks on operations; 23 hours 55 minutes in total.
https://aviationmuseum.com.au/supermarine-spitfire-mk-xvi/
About Temora
Temora is a town in the north-east of the Riverina area of New South Wales, 418 kilometres south-west of the state capital, Sydney. At the 2016 census the urban population of Temora was 4,054.
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Logs
Many thanks Black Bunny for your cache placement, nice to find some GCA traditional caches
Nice to meet you at camp.
It was nice to get a few physical caches on the way home.
Thanks
Albida
this one took a little hunting but we soon had the cache in hand. TFTC
Thanks for the cache BB....
with the museum still closed I came through to this cache and was lucky to get a flyover from a couple of noisy birds.
thanks.
JohnoMawbs discovered that there were some new caches out at West Wyalong and decided to ask me if I wanted to tag along. I didn't have much on so I said yes. I enjoyed the drive along the Goldfields Way to WW and home via Newell HWY/Burley Griffin. I ended up with 4 Joint FTF's and many other caches which now all a
on them. They were all different hides and took me to many places I didn't know about. It was lots of fun. TFTC's Joint *FTF* with swimmagurl @ 2:07pm on 30 January 2021 After lunch today, I found myself with a free afternoon so I decided to ask swimmagurl if she wanted to go for a caching run over to West Wyalong to find some new caches that have popped up recently. We also stopped off at a few other caches for swimmagurl to add to her found collection. So for me, only 5 finds, which 4 of them were FTF's and for swimmagurl, she ended up with 12 finds. All caches were quick finds and all at unique locations and great hides. I would like to thank all CO's of the caches I found and for allowing them to bring enjoyment to me and the rest of the Geocaching community. TFTC's and TFTTP
