UPCOMING EVENTS
SATURDAY, 12th
july 2025
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
SATURDAY, 4th
OCTOBER 2025
Jets, Drones and Rockets
PAST EVENTS
SATURDAY, 26th
APRIL 2025
WARBIRDS
SATURDAY, 18th
JANUARY 2025
Helicopters and Vertical Flight
SATURDAY, 23rd
NOVEMBER 2024
ENGINES ALIVE
FEEL THE POWER! HEAR THE NOISE!
SATURDAY, 28th
SEPTEMBER 2024
29th JUNE 2024
CIVIL AVIATION AND GETTING YOUR WINGS
20th APRIL 2024
WARBIRDS EVENT
9th March 2024
HELICOPTER
and
ROTARY WING
JANUARY 13th 2024
PLANES, TRAINS
anD
Automobiles
List of Services
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Get up close and personalList Item 1
Take a close look at the variety of aircraft and equipment our museum has on display. Meet and talk to the men and women who have served us all through their years in aviation.
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TrainsList Item 2
Be amazed by the range, size, detail and quality of the many model train layouts on display. Talk to the railway modellers and have a go at the open railway display.
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AutomobilesList Item 3
Enjoy these vehicles as much as their owners. Take that one-of-a-kind picture. Military Jeep Club, Qld Holden HSV & HDT Club, Sunshine Coast MG Car Club, Quarter Midget Racers Qld, Maroochydore Vehicle Owners Club.
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Other DisplaysList Item 4
F18 Virtual Reality Simulator,
Buderim-Palmwoods Heritage Tramway, Suncoast Model Flyers RC Planes, Defence Force Recruiting
and many more.
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Joy Flights
Stunning views of Caloundra and the adventure of a helicopter flight with Sunshine Coast Helicopter Tours.
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Food Vans
Feeling hungry? We will have Food, Coffee, Ice Cream Vans, cold drinks and snacks.
September 30th 2023
FAST JETS OPEN DAY
Join us for our Fast Jets Open Day on Saturday, September 30th, 2023.
A fantastic day for the whole family.
Talk to experienced Fast Jet Aircrew - pilots, navigators and engineers. Sit in our Fast Jet cockpits, featuring our F-111C. Get up close and personal with our large collection of jet fighters, jet trainers and jet bombers.
JULY 1St 2023
ENGINES ALIVE
FEEL THE POWER! HEAR THE NOISE!
APRIL 15th, 2023
'Women in Aviation' Panel
The Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra 2023 Autumn Open Day - "Women in Aviation" Panel Discussion featured five women with diverse aviation careers and backgrounds.
It was an inspiring, educational, highly enjoyable event.
WOMEN IN AVIATION
OPEN DAY
A unique networking and information-sharing opportunity for schools, training organisations, services and industries.
THE SKY IS NO LIMIT!
This will be a day to inspire, educate and recruit girls and women interested in aviation careers!
The event takes place in a venue showcasing Australian aviation history, with over 80 restored aircraft on display as well as dozens of aero-engines. The day is hosted by a wide range of personnel with varied and long experience in aviation.
- Network with other women in aviation careers!
- Engage with employers about career pathways!
- Chat with experienced female professionals!
listen and talk with discussion panel speakers!
JAN 21, 2023
HELICOPTERS OPEN DAY Jan 21, 2023
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS with different types of helicopters and the people behind these amazing machines.
ENGINE RUNS experience the power and noise
from our historic engines.
ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS Jumping castle, sausage sizzle, coffee cart, ice-cream van, helicopter simulators and other activities for the kids. Experienced scouts ranging in age from 8 to 18 can assist visitors in activities.
JOY FLIGHTS
Stunning views of Caloundra and the adventure of a helicopter flight with Oceanview Helicopters.
(Joy flights not included in entry fee)
Helicopters Open Day 2023 saw a huge crowd gather under blue summer skies to experience a unique event.
Surrounded by classic aircraft of all kinds, notably the six historic helicopters on display, visitors were treated to an aerial display by a privately-owned CAC Kiowa helicopter (029), resplendent in its Australian Army configuration, and by the crew at the Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter Service as they provided a winch rescue demonstration from their hovering Eurocopter, 'Lifesaver 45'.
As always, visitors were provided expert guidance and information about the aircraft by QAM's volunteer tour guides. Cockpits were open. Engines were run. Aviation careers were inspired. It was also great to see families picnicking together and to see the kids enjoying activities, including flight simulators and bouncing castle.
Once again, all this was made possible by the enthusiastic, community-minded QAM volunteers. What a day!
