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GAF Mirage IIIO  -  A3-45  (on display)

Photo Courtesy of Daniel Leahy

The Mirage was Australia’s first truly supersonic jet fighter, entering service in 1965. It was designed by the French company, Avions Marcel Dassault, and 188 examples were built under licence by the Government Aircraft Factory, with the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation as a major sub-contractor between 1963 and 1974.

The Mirage served with the RAAF until 1989, frequently operating overseas, primarily at the Butterworth Air Base in Malaysia. The Mirage was replaced in RAAF service by the McDonnell Douglas F18 Hornet and the survivors were flown to the Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia for storage before being finally sold to Pakistan.

The museum’s Mirage A3-45 was built in 1967 and served with every RAAF unit that flew the type before it was retired in 1986 and transferred to the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne for test purposes. It was later transferred to Aerospace Technologies of Australia (successor to G.A.F) at Avalon, the company passed the aircraft to the Museum in 1993.

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The Museum wishes to thank the efforts of the Conservatoire de l'Air et de l'Espace d'Aquitaine in France in pursuing missing parts for our Mirage Display. The Association holds a unique collection from a B26 to a Mirage 2000, with an Internationally significant collection of aircraft built in France, including 12 by the Dassault Company such as a Flamant, Entendard, Super Mystere, 3 Mysteres of various marks and 6 Mirages of various marks.

The Australian National Aviation Museum

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