On 16 November 2020, Qantas Airways will turn 100 and to celebrate Qantas Founders Museum has a number of activities planned throughout the week. From 16 – 22 November there will be the following activities: – On 16 November, the official 100th birthday of Qantas, the Museum will provide free entry to the Museum for […]
WHO WAS ARTHUR BAIRD? by Museum Curator Tom Harwood That’s a question he may have asked himself because he was born in Benalla, Victoria in 1889 as Wilfred Arthur Beard (WAB, as he’s often known in Qantas circles). Based on contemporary newspaper reports, he seems to have decided the move to Longreach with QANTAS in […]
The first Qantas Round-the-World flight doesn’t rank as highly in the airline’s history as it possibly should. On December 20th, 1957, Lockheed Super Constellation VH-EAO “Southern Auora with Captain R A Bruce in command, left Sydney with 32 press, radio and television reporters for a 20-day 27 000 mile (43 452 km) flight during which […]
On Monday 19 August 2019, Qantas Founders Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a 51-day drive by three World War One veterans through Northern Australia which would lead to the creation of Australia’s National Airline, Qantas and impact the lives of communities in Outback Queensland and around Australia. On 19th of August 1919, Longreach […]
QANTAS FOUNDERS MUSEUM MEDIA RELEASE 7 August 2019 CELEBRATING A COUNTRY DRIVE THAT CREATED AN AIRLINE On Monday 19 August 2019, Qantas Founders Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of a 51-day drive by three World War One veterans through Northern Australia which would lead to the creation of Australia’s National […]
‘THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST’ IS SUCH A SIMPLE IDEA… by Qantas Founders Museum Curator Tom Harwood It’d be difficult to find a more complicated story than the introduction of the Boeing 707 to Qantas, sixty years ago. A large part of the problem is that humans get fixated on the concept of ‘first’ not […]
WORKING ON THE SUPER CONSTELLATION COCKPIT PROJECT By Project Manager Raymond Boak When the Super Constellation arrived on the back of a truck in May 2017, I was passing through Longreach and made a point of watching the unloading but there was no chance to see inside. On a following trip I did get to […]
On Friday 16 November 2018, Qantas will mark its 98th birthday. On this day the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, QANTAS, was registered as a company in Brisbane. Qantas went on to set up operations and mail routes through Western Queensland and the Northern Territory. From these small beginnings, Qantas has grown into […]
To our valued visitors and community, please be advised that from 22 October – 12 November 2018 Qantas Founders Museum will be undertaking important restoration work in the National Heritage Listed Qantas Hangar that is part of our museum precinct. During this time there will be no access to the National Heritage Listed Qantas […]
The Donaldson Collection includes images of the Donaldson family including cattle station manager Willie Donaldson, his wife Helen and their children, at Riversleigh and Rocklands from 1920-1927. The exhibition gives us insight into what life was like for people on those remote properties and reminds us why the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited […]
