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Many of our guests are pilots and have expressed an interest in setting up a section which features the unusual or interesting aircraft that occasionally visit Sweers Island.

Your feedback & suggestions are welcome, and if you see your aircraft here and can supply further details/technical info. please email us at the address below.

Below are some photos of interesting SINGLE-ENGINE aircraft that have visited Sweers. 

NEW! Click here if you'd like to take a "Virtual Flight" around Sweers Island...

In 2008 we had a visit from the Glen Grams group with three very nice Trinidad TB20 aircraft. There was VH-LQA from Young, NSW; VH-TBZ and VH-PCE from Maroochydore, Queensland.

                 Here are the boys:                                                         And here are the girls:

And if you click on the thumbnails below you will see a larger view of the aircraft:

In 2007 we had a visit from Daryl and Jane Groves, from Townsville, in their home-built Glastar. This beautifully-built aircraft had unusual 'polished aluminium' surfaces, lovely hand-turned timber handles and neat upholstery. A very tidy unit!

  Click on this one for a bigger look at the neat control panel...

In 2006 we had a number of Home-Built aircraft visit the island. Here is a flock of RVs... 

click on the thumbnails below for a larger image...

Here's another look at the RV4 and the RV7 and if you click on the photos below you'll get a sneak peek inside the cockpit!

Lyn was lucky enough to be taken up for some aerobatics...

Here is regular visitor Harold Cislowski's home-built Pelican, which he flies from the Burdekin to Sweers every year for less fuel dollars than it would take to drive - and a lot faster too...

Click on the thumbnails below for a larger view...

In May 2007, we had a visit from Clare McEwan of Air Safaris International www.airsafarisint.com who organises 'tag-along' self-fly groups from Canada and the USA. Clare was here at the same time as Harold & Glenis, so here is a photo of them.The connection? The Pelican is a Canadian-design kit, so Clare was not the first Canadian on the island!

Click on the thumbnails below for a larger view of each aircraft...

Here is a very nice 4-seater Jabiru - a very efficient 4-seater aircraft in the 'Experimental' category...

And here is Darryl Jones' very nice Cessna 180...

This page is a 'Work in Progress' and Tex will make sure that Lyn gets some more photos up here soon, so - Watch This Space!!!

Sweers Island Resort.    Mail:  PMB 1 Karumba QLD 4891   Phone: 07 4748 5544    Fax: 07 4748 5644    Email:  info@sweers.com.au

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