Hi Norm,
Well the Sabre CAC-86 still has very limited avionics thus there are a couple of flying examples of them that appear at various air shows, much the same for the Canberra bomber, but once we got to the Dessault Mirage the whole trailer package had to be run out to the aircraft to fire it up and those electronics are just so outdated it would cost millions to keep one only as a flying example. I Was privileged to see the very last one A3-2 (dual seater) do a flat out run over the Edinburgh base right above the ARDU Hangar and then do a totally vertical climb up to 20,000 feet and disappear for good. We've never seen one fly again after it landed in Woomera to be mothballed until the sale of all of the remaining units to Pakistan. Well at least that was a better outcome than what happened to most decommissioned aircraft in this country, either flown remotely and blown out the sky at Woomera or melted down as scrap as what was the case with most Ex RAAF aircraft.
