The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation was an Australian private company, established in 1936, to provide Australia with the capability to locally manufacture aircraft for use by the Royal Australian A
Wirraway aircraft under construction at the Fishermans Bend factory in 1940
Manufacture of a CAC Wackett in the Butler Hangar, 1943
The CAC Boomerang
The prototype CAC CA-15 "Kangaroo"
CAC Boomerang
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The CAC Boomerang is a fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation between 1942 and 1945. Approved for production shortly following the Empire of J
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
…might not be available from overseas should war arise. The company's initial output was centred on the production of the Wirraway, Wackett, Woomera and Boomerang during World War II from a manufacturing plant in Fishermans Bend, Melbourne, Victoria. Post-war, the company manufactured the F-86 Sabre, Winjeel…
Boomerangs under construction at CAC's factory at Fishermans Bend
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Wing Commander A. E. Cook in the cockpit of a CAC Boomerang fighter