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Old 7th Aug 2002, 13:00
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I recall sighting one of those Aircobras in the shallows somewhere near Silver Plains about twenty-five years ago.

A couple of local Thursday Island identies found an Aircobra on the cape near Bamaga in the late sixties or early seventies. A ground inspection revealed the aircraft was in tact and contained a large number of live rounds. The Army made it safe with some explosive devices but damaged the aircraft.

Later in the seventies I saw one under restoration in Clermont and the suggestion was that it came from the Cape!

Many of the wrecks I had seen around the Cape and the Gulf have either disappeared into oblivion or have been recovered.
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