* Volume One comprises two books (including bookcase) weighing a combined 5kg. Please email us at shop@avonmorebooks.com.au if you are interested in this title as special freight rates apply (ignore the SOLD OUT tag below).

An encyclopaedic four-volume work on every aircraft type proposed, designed or manufactured in Australia from 1884 to the mid-1980s.

"... meticulously researched. I was overwhelmed by pictures and histories of types that were only vaguely familiar or completely new to me ... the work is a veritable mine of information ... in scale and detail, there is nothing in Australia, or for that matter the world, like this work."
Norm Clifford, Aeroplane Magazine

Volume One: 1884 to 1939
Ch. 1 Hargrave, Taylor and the Commonwealth Prize
Ch.2 Early Experimenters
Ch.3 Duigan and Further Experimenters
Ch.4 WWI Activity
Ch.5 Australian Aircraft and Engineering Co.
Ch.6 1924 Lightplane Competitions
Ch.7 LASCo, QANTAS and WAA
Ch.8 RAAF Randwick
Ch.9 Individual Builders 1918 to 1930
Ch.10 AMSCo, the MSB and Matthews Aviation
Ch.11 Individual Builders 1931 to 1939
Ch.12 General, Harkness, Cockatoo and Tugan
Ch.13 De Havilland Aircraft 1925 to 1939
Ch.14 Industry D and D Proposals - between the wars

Note: some of the slipcases have some imperfections such as discolouration.