Aircraft Hall

Discover our reopened Aircraft Hall, displaying classic aircraft from the First World War, Second World War and Korean War.

Level 2 | Permanent gallery

From the Entrance Foyer, take the stairs or lift to Level 2, and head through the Hall of Valour.

What's on display

Aircraft Hall features three aircraft from the First World War era:

Deperdussin taxi-type single seat training monoplane – the oldest existing Australian aircraft and one of the first aircraft ordered by the Commonwealth Government in 1912.
Albatros D.Va scout aircraft – entered production in mid-1917 and used heavily by the German Airforce.
Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a scout/fighter aircraft – one of 35 SE5a fighter aircrafts given as an Imperial Gift by Britain in 1920 for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), which was soon to be formed.

Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a scout/fighter aircraft and Mural of Australian Military Aircraft

Aircraft Hall

Deperdussin monoplane

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Avro Anson cockpit

A collection of other aircraft and objects from the National Collection have returned, including:

Avro Anson aircraft training cockpit from the Second World War
Sea Fury, Mustang and MiG-15 from the Korean War
Japanese Zero fighter aircraft from the Second World War
The Bombing of Darwin exhibition, featuring new Indigenous artworks.

Harold Freedman’s Mural of Australian Military Aircraft

Harold Freedman’s monumental Mural of Australian Military Aircraft makes its return to the Memorial.

The mural, painted between 1968 and 1972, depicts 315 different types of aircraft from 1901 to 1973.

Carefully and meticulously restored by our art conservation team, it will be on display on the walls of Aircraft Hall for the first time since 1999.

A section of Harold Freedman's Mural of Australian Military Aircraft

Over the Front, a short film by Peter Jackson

Over the Front, a 12-min film by internationally acclaimed director Peter Jackson, will be projected in Aircraft Hall's theatrette.

The film—featuring the SE5a and Albatros D.Va aircraft on display in the gallery—depicts military flight and aerial combat during the First World War and uses actual flying footage of the aircraft combined with scale models and digital effects.