CAC Wirraway
id:
cac-wirraway-204-10645775
title:
CAC Wirraway
text:
The CAC Wirraway is a training and general purpose military aircraft manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1939 and 1946. It was an Australian development of the North American NA-16 training aircraft. The Wirraway has been credited as being the foundation of Australian aircraft manufacturing. When the name was announced on 6 April 1938, it was said to be "an Aboriginal word meaning challenge". The word presumably comes from Daniel Bunce's compilation L
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1937 Australian trainer aircraft
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Wirraway
date created:
2006-02-03T10:53:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T00:17:51Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wirraway_%28AWM_AC0141%29.jpg","width":639,"height":485}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16