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(Left) The 17th at last have their standard back. (Right) The flag is at last returned to its place of pride at Amberley.

Flag returns from Nam at last

Fifty-five years after a 17th Construction Squadron flag supposedly “blew off” a…

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Cricketers flying high in simulator at Amberley

Cricketers flying high in simulator at Amberley

Brisbane Heat stars Usman Khawaja and Michael Neser visited RAAF Base Amberley…

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PAST PLANES: The historical DHC-4 Caribou A4-236 next to the C-27J Spartan.

Squadron shares bit of history

More than 600 family members and friends received a warm welcome from…

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READY TO ROLL: No. 35 Squadron members from the first air mobility detachment with Papua New Guinea Defence Force personnel, stand with a C-27J Spartan at Wewak Airfield, Papua New Guinea.

Extending a helping hand

ROTATIONAL deployment of a RAAF C-27J Spartan under the Defence Pacific Air…

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EYE IN THE SKY: Joelene Buntain at the Australian Space Discovery Centre in Adelaide.

Looking to the stars and beyond

AS DEFENCE Space Command looks to the stars, one of its aviators…

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WORLD BELOW: Bremer State High School, Ipswich, Indigenous students Harmony Shaddick, Arielle Wilson and Koda Sheather flying in a No. 26 Squadron C-17 Globemaster III on a NAIDOC familiarisation flight from RAAF Base Amberley.

RAAF connection flies high

AS the rear ramp lowered mid-flight on a 36 Squadron C-17 Globemaster…

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