Essendon Airport (YMEN) Melbourne

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A collection of my photographs taken at Essendon Airport

Winjeel VH-WMF

Essendon Airport Terminal

Essendon Terminal Interior. A busy main airport till the 1960's now almost a ghost town at weekends.

Essendon Control Tower

Essendon Airport long shot

Parking area for corporate jets and prop aircraft.

Aircraft ramp - pre 1960's this would have been filled with 727's, DC9's, etc. Note: The viewing concourse overhead is now off-limits.

Essendon Fields Shopping Centre in the middle of the Essendon Airport car park.

Challenger Uniform Romeo Romeo at Essendon Airport

Xray Charlie Uniform parked at Essendon Airport.

Phenom Papa November Mike at Essendon

The smallest jet operated by QANTAS - HS125-3B. Cockpit configured as a B707 for pilot training - before simulators. From a colour transparency taken in 1968.

Scanned from a B&W print taken in the 1960's

Scanned from a B&W print taken in the early 1960's

Fairchild Metroliner Uniform Uniform Bravo taxiing out at Essendon

Lockheed Electra L-188 - From a slide taken in 1984

Ansett ANA DC-6B VH-INA

Lockheed Electra L-188 - From a 1984 colour slide.

Beech Duchess at Essendon

Cessna 404 VH-TTZ

Beech KingAir B200

Piper Navajo Chieftain VH-LHF

Cessna 182 Victor Echo Sierra at Essendon Airport

Foxtrot Uniform Foxtrot at Essendon

Socata TBM700

Rockwell Int 114 VH-RNS

Channel Seven Eurocopter AS350B2 on the dolly at Essendon Airport.

This near new helicopter was unfortunately parked in the full shadow of the hangar at Essendon Airport

Erickson Air Crane "Elvis" at Essendon waiting to be shipped back to the US after being on call for bushfire duties during the Australian summer.

Skycrane N194AC

Winjeel VH-WMF

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