Barossa Birdmen Christmas Toy Run

Today was the annual Barossa Birdmen Christmas Toy Run Fly-in at Truro Flats Air Park.  Visitors donate toys which are then distributed to  deserving families in the Barossa region.   It is always well supported with up to 40 visiting aircraft.  Todays low cloud made for difficult conditions as most visitors must abide by Visual Flight Rules, meaning they must be clear of cloud and have the ground in view at all times.

Today there were 23 visiting aircraft.

Visitors included two DH-82A Tiger Moths (VH-CDM and VH-ABL), a very smart Lancair 200 (VH-OIO) and a Liberty XL-2 (VH-XLY)

Other interesting visitors were a Canadian Bush Caddy (19-4564),  a Tecnam P2008 (24-8001) and an Alto 912 (23-5595)

There were many other types represented, and here are a further selection of them. Jabiru 160 (19-8598), Jabiru 200 (19-3962), Aeroprakt Foxbat (24-8589), Sonex (19-8776), Allegro 2000 (19-4342) and Aeropup mk IV (19-7872)

In one of the hangers was this Fisher Celebrity 

Thanks to the friendly folk at Truro Flats for a great day, and a delicious steak sandwich for lunch!l

RAAF F-35A at Adelaide 500 Super Car Race

The Adelaide 500 super car race takes place every year in the city centre.  Roads are closed off, grandstands built, and for 4 days cars race around the streets of Adelaide at speeds exceeding 230Kph.  

The RAAF usually sends an aircraft to display for the crowd each day.  This year they sent one of the RAAF's newest fighters, the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II.  It is based at RAAF Edinburgh for the duration, and this afternoon I watched it depart and return after it's display

New carrier for Adelaide Airport - VietJet

VietJet have just started a new service to Ho Chi Min City from Adelaide via Perth.  It arrives into Adelaide around 8pm and leaves for Perth around 7:30 the following morning.    Here are some photos of the departure.  (Airbus A321 NEO VN-A646)

Two other international airline flew into Adelaide this morning, Batik Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur (Boeing 737 Max 8 9M-LRT and Singapore Airlines from Singapore (9V-SCP).

Cirrus Life Australia 2023

This weekend saw Adelaide Airport host Cirrus Life Australia 2023.   Over 30 Cirrus aircraft flew into Adelaide for the event. Cirrus was founded in the 1980's building kit aircraft, and now manufactures a range of light aircraft. They are well known for their bright colour schemes.

There were aircraft squeezed into almost every corner of the apron.

Many of the planes flew in from New South Wales and Victoria

Cirrus also make a small personal jet, the SF50 Vision