RAAF FA-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft at RAAF Base Darwin. (Defence, LAC Sam Price)

The Yak 110 at the Gold Coast Pacific Airshow in 2023.

Indonesian Air Force soldiers paradrop at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in August. (LAC Adam Abela, Defence)

Chinooks prior_ to departure from RAAF Base Townsville ahead of its deployment to Vanuatu. (Defence, WO2 Max Bree)

The US Air Force unveils new photos of the upcoming B 21 Raider

The original rescue crew at the official launch of the Queensland operation of Westpac Helicopter Rescue, in 1976. The helicopter is a Bell 206B Jet Ranger, VH-FJR .

Aussie pilots Matt Hall and Emma McDonald led spectacular sunset flypasts over the city.

Display team Screaming Diamonds are made up of Pitts Specials.

A RAAF C-27J Spartan conducts a reconnaissance flight of airfields in the Kimberly region. (Defence)

Warrant Officer Class Two Benjamin Dwyer prepares to conduct a rescue by winch of a Lismore community member from an MRH-90 Taipan. (Defence)

An Army loadmaster from 6th Aviation Regiment looks out over floodwaters from an MHR-90 Taipan in the vicinity of Wisemans Ferry, NSW. (Defence)

The last-ever commercial Boeing 747 rolls off the production line.

Qantas's first next-generation A220 under construction at the Airbus factory in Mirabel, Canada.

A RAAF C-130J Hercules taxis through a bird bath at Andersen Air Base, Guam, last year. (Defence, SQNLDR Eamon Hamilton)

A member of the Australian Amphibious Force helocasting from a CH-47 Chinook off the coast of northern Queensland in June. Helocasting involves jumping from a helicopter into the sea and is used as a way of infiltrating enemy territory via stealth.

Victor Pody shot this dramatic photo.

The late, great Eric Allen shot this Qantas 707-138B, VH-EBI, in Mascot on 23 May 1965.

Four BA Concorde fly in formation on Christmas Eve 1985.

Fysh (right) with Charlie Knight, a leading stock and station agent from Longreach, who had bought a B.E.2e war surplus aircraft. (Qantas Heritage Collection)

A97-208, an A Hercules variant, was delivered in December 1958 but eventually sold to the French government in 1983. Here it is in Avalon in 1963, where it attended the maiden flight of the first Australian-assembled Mirage supersonic fighter (A3-3).