Lockoweb Aviation History

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The main current project is the centenary of the flight by Richard Williams and crew to the Solomon Islands, September-October 1926. The first draft of the expediton and the historical research in now in the williams archive.

Australia Post is not issuing celebration plans, and other celebrations have yet to be arranged.

NAA file of RAAF trip Williams report 1976 (NAA DOCUMENT A9376 96: the best source material;
full picture file from this document

General source dump This has a large amount of material including extract from WIliams autobiography and Keith Isaacs article (labelled Aircraft Article 1926...) as well as material on philately

Point Cook pix

1976 stamps

Future project: the early career of Charles Kingsford-Smith