Wagga Wagga is set to become the location of the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame, the first venue of its kind in the country.
Wagga Wagga Mayor Kerry Pascoe will launch the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame with a Mayoral Reception next week with a view to, “honour the past and inspire the future”.
Organisers say the premise is: “To establish the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame, to formally induct into it people and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to civil aviation in Australia and Australians who have made an outstanding contribution internationally.
"To honour all inductees with a public exhibition of their contribution both electronically via a website and physically in a facility located in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.”
Wagga Wagga has long been a key regional aviation hub with, amongst other things, the town being the birthplace of Kendell Airlines, once one of the largest regional airlines in the country before being bought out by Regional Express, or Rex.
The launch of the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame will happen at the upstairs foyer of the Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre on Tuesday August 24 from 1730. Australian Flying will be attending the launch, and you can read all about it in our forthcoming November/December issue. For more information on the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame and on the launch email posselt.carmel@wagga.nsw.gov.au.
Wagga Wagga Airport, with ATC tower in background.
