AIRCRAFT DUMPED AT JOHNSTON STREET, BULIMBA
DURING WW2

visits since 1 November 2000

A friend of mine called Joe Salter, told me in October 2000, that he used to go to school in Bulimba. He remembers that there was an area in Bulimba where all of the wrecked aircraft from World War 2 were stockpiled.

He said they were stacked three high in a large area near where Yamaha Motor Australia Pty. Ltd. is now located at 30 Johnston Street, Bulimba. It is interesting to note that there is a park in that area called Johnston Park. Could they still all be buried underneath this park? Probably not.

The Australian National Archives has a file describing a location which may be this aircraft dump at Johnston Road:-

"Bulimba Queensland - Lease to Fosters Foundry - crashed aircraft dump"

Joe said that he was sitting in the classroom at Bulimba Primary School one day when an aircraft zoomed past at window level headed for Eagle Farm airfield. Joe knew that it was not going to make it to the airfield and he found out that it had crashed in the mud flats near the Brisbane River. A number of days later that same aircraft was placed on top of the pile of aircraft at Bulimba.

Can anyone tell me with more info on these dumped aircraft?

What happened to them?

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

"Australia @ War"

This page first produced 1 November 2000

This page last updated 27 February 2004