Heritage
The stories, the people and the days that shaped the Air Force family — kept by the Association since 1920.
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Why we keep it
The Association was founded by airmen who did not want their comrades forgotten. A century on, that is still the job.
Heritage is where the Association records the service of the Air Force family: the squadrons and aircraft, the people behind the names on memorials, and the days on which the nation stops to remember them. Much of it is written by members and Divisions. If you have a story, we would like to hear it.
In this section
Five places to start. Stories and Salute Their Service are the archive; Commemoration is the calendar; Wings and Our history are the Association’s own record.
Stories
Historic features and special topics: squadrons, aircraft, memorials and operations, told by the people who were there.
Browse the stories
Salute Their Service
Service biographies honouring individual members of the Air Force family, with their service record.
Read the biographies
Commemoration
Anzac Day, Remembrance Day, Battle of Britain Day, VP Day — what each day means and how the Association marks it.
The commemorative year
Wings
The Association’s magazine, quarterly since the 1940s: news, history and the Air Force family in print.
Read Wings
Our history
From the Australian Flying Corps Association of 1920 to a national federation of seven Divisions.
The Association’s storyRecently added
From the archive
Warrant Officer Len Waters
Kittyhawk pilot · Australia’s first Aboriginal fighter pilot
Wing Commander Peter Isaacson AM DFC AFC DFM
Lancaster pilot and publisher · 1920 – 2017
Air Marshal Sir Valston (Val) Eldridge Hancock KBE CB DFC
Chief of the Air Staff, 1961–1965 · 1907 – 1998
Commemoration
Next on the commemorative calendar
Keep their stories alive
Know a story that belongs here — a relative, a squadron, an aircraft? Tell us, and help the Association record and share the service of the Air Force family.