Hudson goes on show at Canberra

摘要

The Australian War Memorial s Lockheed Hudson IV, A16-105, went on display near the Virgin Australia check-in desks at Canberra Airport on 19 December, following six years' work at the AWM's Treloar workshops to restore the bomber to its December 1942 configuration. Acquired by the AWM in January 2001, the machine spent a brief period on display in the museum's Anzac Hall before being taken to the Treloar facility where restoration began in September 2010. The most complex task has been the installation of a Boulton Paul turret, which had been absent since the aircraft was civilianised post-war. An invaluable source of parts has been the damaged rear fuselage section from Hudson A16-128, which contained a large proportion of the structure missing from '105 to support the upper gun turret.