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オーストラリア陸軍航空隊

オーストラリア陸軍航空隊

Australian Army Aviation, formed as a corps on 1 July 1968 out of a joint Army–RAAF light aircraft squadron and the Vietnam-era 161 Reconnaissance Flight, took over the RAAF’s battlefield helicopters in 1989, lost 18 men in the 1996 Black Hawk collision and four more in the 2023 Taipan crash, and in 2026 is halfway through the most complete re-equipment in its history: Tiger and Taipan gone, AH-64E Apaches and UH-60M Black Hawks arriving, and CH-47F Chinooks carrying the heavy loads.

全国的な採点濃い青色のリングの中に白い円盤の上に赤いカンガルーが描かれている。
0戦闘機
6現役の空軍基地
1968設立
18退職したタイプ
写真: Bidgee / ウィキメディア・コモンズ (CC BY-SA 3.0 au)
国オーストラリア設立1968状態アクティブ本部Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane司令官Fern Thompson
その物語

The Australian Army Aviation story: spotters in Korea, a recce flight in Vietnam and the switch from Tiger and Taipan to Apache and Black Hawk

1912–1960: the Flying Corps, then a long gap filled by artillery spotters

Army aviators like to trace their line back to the Australian Flying Corps, approved by the Minister for Defence on 20 September 1912, which flew its first aircraft at Point Cook on 1 March 1914 and sent four squadrons to the First World War. But in 1921 the corps became the core of the new Royal Australian Air Force, and for four decades the Army owned no aircraft. What survived was the idea of the Air Observation Post: artillery officers flying light aircraft to spot for the guns. A wartime AOP flight was formally disbanded in 1947, but five Australians flew with the British 1903 AOP Flight in Korea, where Captain Joe Luscombe of the Royal Australian Artillery was killed on 5 June 1952. A small 1 Army Aviation Company formed at Bankstown in 1957 and swapped its Auster Mk IIIs for Cessna 180As in 1958. It was a foothold, not a force.

1960–1972: 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron, 161 Recce Flight and the corps of 1968

The foothold became a unit on 1 December 1960, when 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron formed at RAAF Amberley as a joint Army and Air Force squadron under Wing Commander Ken Robertson, flying Cessna 180s and Bell 47G-2 Sioux helicopters. In July 1965 it raised 161 Reconnaissance Flight for Vietnam. The flight reached Vung Tau on 28 September 1965 and flew its first operational sortie on 22 October; over almost seven years, with Cessnas, Sioux, Pilatus Turbo-Porters, borrowed O-1 Bird Dogs and leased OH-58As, it flew more than 72,000 hours of reconnaissance, liaison and artillery spotting, and lost three pilots. At home the squadron became the 1st Aviation Regiment in 1967, and on 1 July 1968 the Australian Army Aviation Corps was formed with 106 officers. A year later, on 1 July 1969, the Army took over the airfield at Oakey, which has been its aviation home ever since.

1972–1989: Kiowas, Nomads and the fight for the helicopters

After Vietnam the corps settled into a peacetime routine of survey support and training. The Bell 206B-1 Kiowa, 56 of them assembled largely by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, replaced the Sioux from 1972; the GAF Nomad and the Turbo-Porter made up a small fixed-wing fleet. The School of Army Aviation formed at Oakey in 1972. The Nomad was the weak point: a crash near Drake, New South Wales, on 9 September 1991 killed four, and in 1995 every Nomad was withdrawn on airworthiness grounds. The real argument of the period was about helicopters. The RAAF had flown the troop-lift Iroquois, including in Vietnam, and the Army wanted them under its own command. On 20 November 1986 the Chiefs of Staff Committee agreed to transfer the battlefield helicopter fleet to the Army, and in January 1988 the first 14 people began raising the 5th Aviation Regiment at Townsville.

1989–2008: Black Hawks, peacekeeping and the night of 12 June 1996

In 1989 the RAAF’s No. 9 Squadron, with the new S-70A-9 Black Hawk, became A Squadron of the 5th Aviation Regiment, and No. 35 Squadron’s Iroquois became B Squadron. Chinooks followed in mid-1995, rebuilt to CH-47D standard. The Black Hawk gave the Army its first real reach overseas: six went to the UN mission in Cambodia in 1993, five to Bougainville in 1994, and Black Hawks and Kiowas were among the first forces into East Timor in September 1999. The worst night came first. On 12 June 1996, during a special forces counter-terrorism exercise at the High Range Training Area near Townsville, two Black Hawks collided: 15 members of the Special Air Service Regiment and three of the 5th Aviation Regiment were killed. Fourays records that the investigation led to cockpit voice and flight data recorders being fitted.

2001–2023: the European bet — Tiger and Taipan

At the turn of the century Australia bought European. The Eurocopter Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopter, 22 ordered on 21 December 2001, was to give the corps a real attack helicopter; the NH Industries MRH 90 Taipan, selected in August 2004 and eventually ordered 46-strong with six for the Navy, was to replace the Black Hawk. Neither went as planned. The Tiger’s acquisition agency stopped payments in July 2007 over delays, and it reached full operating capability only on 18 April 2016. The Taipan suffered engine, transmission and windscreen problems and repeated groundings. Meanwhile the old fleet kept fighting: Chinooks flew in Iraq in 2003 and in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2013, where one crashed in May 2011, killing Lieutenant Marcus Case, and another was destroyed in a hard landing in 2012. The Iroquois left in 2007, the fixed-wing aircraft in 2009 and the Kiowa in 2019.

2023–2026: Apache, UH-60M and a reckoning with safety

In January 2021 the government chose 29 AH-64E Apaches to replace the Tiger, and that December it decided to replace the Taipan with the UH-60M Black Hawk, 40 of which were announced in January 2023; the last S-70A-9s had retired on 10 December 2021. Then, on the night of 28 July 2023, a 6th Aviation Regiment Taipan crashed into the sea off the Whitsundays during Exercise Talisman Sabre, killing Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Max Nugent, Warrant Officer Class Two Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs. Four months after a Taipan had ditched in Jervis Bay, the defence minister, Richard Marles, announced on 29 September 2023 that the type would never fly again. The UH-60M had begun arriving in August 2023, the first Apaches settled at Townsville, and the Tiger flew its farewell over Darwin in September 2026. The inquiries are not finished: in September 2026 a Senate committee recommended an independent review of the Defence Flight Safety Bureau’s report into the crash.

The foothold became a unit on 1 December 1960, when 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron formed at RAAF Amberley as a joint Army and Air Force squadron under Wing Commander Ken Robertson, flying Cessna 180s and Bell 47G-2 Sioux helicopters. In July 1965 it raised 161 Reconnaissance Flight for Vietnam.Australian Army Aviation · verified 2026-10-01

一目でわかる

The Australian Army Aviation in numbers

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正式名称
オーストラリア陸軍航空隊The corps is formally the Australian Army Aviation Corps. Australia has no other official language, so there is no other official name; the name follows the current English Wikipedia article title. Motto: Vigilance
設立
1 July 1968Corps formed with 106 officers. Predecessors: 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron (1 December 1960) and the Air Observation Post flights; the Fourays history of Army aviation begins with the Australian Flying Corps of 1912
一部
Australian ArmyThe flying regiments sit under the 16th Aviation Brigade, raised on 2 April 2002 at Enoggera
本部
Enoggera Barracks, BrisbaneHQ 16th Aviation Brigade. Training is centred on the Army Aviation Centre at Oakey, Queensland
司令官
Brig. Fern ThompsonCommander 16th Aviation Brigade according to Wikipedia; appointment date not confirmed on an official page
Chief of Army
Lt Gen. Susan CoyleHead of the Australian Army

強さ

人事
About 1,500 uniformed1,495 uniformed personnel and more than 3,000 in industry support in August 2018, the last figure found; no newer official total was reachable
攻撃ヘリコプター
  • AH-64E Apache Guardian — 6 delivered of 29 ordered (September 2026)

The 22 Tiger ARH were retired in September 2026. The Apaches are based at Townsville

汎用ヘリコプター
  • UH-60M Black Hawk — about 15–17 delivered by mid-2025 of 40 ordered

Sources differ on the 2025 count: Wikipedia’s Black Hawk article says about 15, its Australian Army article 17. All 40 are due by 2030

大型輸送ヘリコプター
  • CH-47F Chinook — 14

C Squadron, 5th Aviation Regiment, Townsville; delivered 2015–2022

訓練用ヘリコプター
  • H135T3 Juno — 5 leased from the UK (Oakey)
  • EC135T2+ — 15 at the joint Army–Navy school, Nowra

The EC135s belong to the Navy’s 723 Squadron and train both services’ pilots

無人航空機
  • RQ-7B Shadow 200
  • Wasp AE
  • PD-100 Black Hornet

Operated by the 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, which belongs to the 16th Aviation Brigade. Numbers in service not confirmed; 18 Shadow air vehicles were bought

インフラストラクチャー

飛行基地
  • Oakey — Army Aviation Training Centre, H135 Juno
  • RAAF Base Townsville — 5th Aviation Regiment; 1st Aviation Regiment HQ and Apaches since 2025
  • Holsworthy (Luscombe airfield), Sydney — 6th Aviation Regiment
  • Robertson Barracks, Darwin — 1st Aviation Regiment (Tiger to 2026)

Pilots also train at HMAS Albatross, Nowra

旧基地
  • RAAF Amberley — 16 ALA Squadron from 1960
  • Bankstown — 1 Army Aviation Company, 1957
  • Vung Tau, South Vietnam — 161 Reconnaissance Flight from 1965

Oakey replaced Amberley from 1969

連隊
3 aviation regiments1st (armed reconnaissance), 5th (transport and heavy lift), 6th (special operations), plus the 16th Aviation Support Battalion and the 20th Regiment RAA with drones
固定翼航空機
None since 2009The last King Air B350s went to the RAAF at the end of 2009
博物館
オーストラリア陸軍航空博物館、オーキーFree entry, Wednesday to Saturday

構造

How the Australian Army Aviation is organised

A corps of the Australian Army whose flying units sit under the 16th Aviation Brigade at Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane: the 1st, 5th and 6th Aviation Regiments, the 16th Aviation Support Battalion and the drone-flying 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, with training at Oakey. In 2026 the fleet is halfway through its renewal: the Tiger retired in September with six of 29 AH-64E Apaches at Townsville, UH-60M Black Hawks are replacing the grounded MRH 90 Taipan, and 14 CH-47F Chinooks carry the heavy loads. The Army has flown no fixed-wing aircraft since its last King Air B350s went to the RAAF at the end of 2009.

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准将Fern ThompsonCommander 16th Aviation Brigade
16th Aviation Brigade
本部

16th Aviation Brigade

Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane

The formation that commands the flying regiments of the Australian Army Aviation Corps, raised on 2 April 2002 at Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane. Wikipedia names Brigadier Fern Thompson as commander; her appointment date could not be confirmed on an official page. Besides the three aviation regiments it holds the 16th Aviation Support Battalion and the 20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, with the Army’s drones.

攻撃と偵察

第1航空連隊

Townsville

The armed reconnaissance regiment. Its headquarters and 161 Reconnaissance Squadron moved from Robertson Barracks, Darwin, to RAAF Base Townsville in 2025 to receive the AH-64E Apache; the ABC reported six of the 29 ordered there in September 2026. 162 Reconnaissance Squadron flew the Tiger from Darwin until its farewell in September 2026; its future after the Tiger was not confirmed.

Transport and heavy lift

5th Aviation Regiment

Townsville

Raised at Townsville from January 1988, when the RAAF’s battlefield helicopters passed to the Army. B Squadron flies the UH-60M Black Hawk and C Squadron the 14 CH-47F Chinooks; about 15 to 17 of the 40 UH-60Ms ordered had been delivered by mid-2025, according to Wikipedia.

特殊作戦

6th Aviation Regiment

Holsworthy

Raised on 1 March 2008 to give the special forces their own helicopters, after the inquiry into the Black Hawk crash on HMAS Kanimbla in 2006. Its 171st and 173rd Aviation Squadrons fly the UH-60M, which replaced the MRH 90 Taipan after a 173rd Squadron aircraft crashed off the Whitsundays on 28 July 2023, killing four.

トレーニング

Army Aviation Training Centre

Oakey and Nowra

Formed at Oakey in 1998 and transferred to Army Aviation Command in 2021, with the School of Army Aviation and the Rotary-wing Aircraft Maintenance School. Five H135T3 Junos leased from the UK have been based there since 2024; Army pilots also train on 15 EC135T2+ at the joint school in the Navy’s 723 Squadron at HMAS Albatross, Nowra.

無人航空機

20th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery

記載なし

The artillery regiment of the 16th Aviation Brigade that flies the Army’s drones: the RQ-7B Shadow 200, of which 18 air vehicles were bought and which flew in Afghanistan from May 2012, the Wasp AE and the PD-100 Black Hornet. Numbers in service and the regiment’s base are not given in the sources for this page.


使用中

What the Australian Army Aviation flies today

課金対象となるすべてのタイプは、該当する「獣図鑑」のページ(存在する場合)にリンクされています。. 表示されている機数は、予約済みの機数であり、特定の日に利用可能な機数ではありません。.

タイプ 役割 使用中 以来 単位 注記
ボーイングAH-64Eアパッチ・ガーディアン使用中 攻撃偵察ヘリコプター 6 2025 Six delivered and based at Townsville by September 2026 (ABC); 29 ordered.
シコルスキーUH-60Mブラックホーク使用中 汎用および特殊作戦用ヘリコプター 17 2023 About 15 (Wikipedia, Black Hawk article) to 17 (Wikipedia, Australian Army article) delivered by mid-2025; 40 ordered, all due by 2030. A 2026 count was not confirmed.
ボーイングCH-47Fチヌーク使用中 大型輸送ヘリコプター 14 2015 Seven delivered April–September 2015, three in June 2016, two in July 2021 and two in June 2022.
エアバス・ヘリコプターズ H135T3 ジュノー使用中 訓練用および軽作業用ヘリコプター 5 2024 Leased from the UK Ministry of Defence for five years.
Airbus Helicopters EC135T2+使用中 Basic helicopter trainer (joint with the Navy) 15 2018 Navy-owned, shared with the Army.
テキストロン (AAI) RQ-7B シャドウ 200使用中 Tactical unmanned aircraft 18 2012 18 air vehicles bought; number in service in 2026 not confirmed.
AeroVironment Wasp AE および FLIR PD-100 Black Hornet使用中 Small unmanned aircraft
Shadow 20018
UH-60M17
EC13515
CH-47F14
AH-64E6
H1355

注文済み

タイプ 注文しました 初回配達 注記
ボーイングAH-64Eアパッチ・ガーディアン注文済み 23 29 ordered, six delivered by September 2026; the ABC reports the rest by the end of 2029 within a A$4.5 billion programme. Full operating capability is planned for 2028.
シコルスキーUH-60Mブラックホーク注文済み 23 2023 40 ordered; about 15–17 had arrived by mid-2025, so roughly 23–25 were still to come. All 40 are due by 2030.

以前は運営されていた

Every type the Australian Army Aviation has retired

18 types, from the Cessna 180 to the Eurocopter Tiger ARH. ピーク時の数値は、特定の日付における機体数ではなく、運用期間全体を通して引き渡された機体数を指します。.

タイプ 役割 ピーク 提供 に置き換えられました 注記
Eurocopter Tiger ARH 武装偵察ヘリコプター 22 2004年~2026年 AH-64E アパッチ 22 ordered and delivered (15 December 2004 to December 2011); 18 assembled in Brisbane.
NHIndustries MRH 90 Taipan 多用途ヘリコプター 40 2007–2023 UH-60M ブラックホーク 46 ordered in all, six of them for the Navy (Fourays and Wikipedia’s NH90 article; Wikipedia’s Army Aviation article gives 47).
シコルスキーS-70A-9ブラックホーク 汎用ヘリコプター 39 1989–2021 MRH 90 Taipan, then UH-60M 14 ordered in 1986 and 25 in 1987; 38 assembled by de Havilland Australia. Five lost in accidents; 34 in service in 2014.
Bell 206B-1 Kiowa (CAC CA-32) 軽観測ヘリコプター 56 1972年~2019年 EC135T2+ (training) First 12 built in the US and reassembled in Australia; the rest licence-built by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation.
ボーイングCH-47Dチヌーク 大型輸送ヘリコプター 8 1995–2015 CH-47F チヌーク Four ex-RAAF CH-47Cs rebuilt to D standard (1995), two more in 2000 and two in 2012. Two lost in Afghanistan.
ビーチクラフト キングエア B200/B350 軽輸送 1996–2009 Leased.
デ・ハビランド・カナダ DHC-6 ツインオッター STOL輸送 1996–2009 Leased.
ベルUH-1Hイロコイ 汎用ヘリコプター 1989–2007 MRH 90 Taipan, Tiger ARH
エンブラエル EMB 110 バンデイランテ 軽輸送 King Air B200, Twin Otter
GAF N22B and N24A Nomad STOL utility aircraft 24 1975–1995 Leased King Air and Twin Otter 12 N22B to 1987, then eight N22B and four N24A in 1993 (plus a leased prototype in 1973).
ピラタス PC-6 ターボポーター STOL utility aircraft 19 1968–1992 GAF Nomad 19 entered service.
ベルOH-58Aカイオワ 観測ヘリコプター 8 1971年~1972年 Leased.
ベル47Gスー 軽観測ヘリコプター 1960–1972 ベル206B-1カイオワ
セスナ O-1 バードドッグ Forward observation aircraft
Auster AOP Mk III 航空観測所 Cessna 180A Establishment of six to eight aircraft.
セスナ180 Liaison and reconnaissance aircraft 1958年~
Eurocopter AS350B Squirrel 軽ヘリコプター 1990年~
インシトゥスキャンイーグル 無人航空機 RQ-7B Shadow 200

空軍基地

Where Australian Army Aviation flies from

黒色のピンは現役の基地、中空のピンは閉鎖された飛行場を表しています。. Army aviation has lived at Oakey since 1 July 1969 and has flown its operational helicopters from RAAF Base Townsville since 1988; the Tiger flew from Robertson Barracks, Darwin, until September 2026. RAAF Base Amberley, where 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron formed in 1960, and the Navy’s HMAS Albatross, home of the joint helicopter school, are listed for their Army units. Vung Tau and Nui Dat, the bases of 161 Reconnaissance Flight in Vietnam, closed in 1972.

現役の航空基地 閉鎖または予約ピンをクリックして基本ページを開きます

オーストラリア

2 of the 8 bases above sit outside Australia, so the world map has to pull back until the home airfields cannot be told apart. The same pins again, without the overseas bases.

ベース ICAO 状態 滑走路 部隊と航空機
HMASアルバトロスノーラ海軍航空基地ニューサウスウェールズ州 YSNW アクティブ 03/212,046メートル08/262,094メートル
  • 723 Squadron joint helicopter school: Airbus Helicopters EC135T2+
Holsworthy BarracksLuscombe Armyニューサウスウェールズ州 YSHW アクティブ 11/29670メートル
オーキー陸軍航空センタークイーンズランド州(トゥーウンバ地域) YBOK アクティブ 05/23914メートル09/271,089メートル14/321,649 m
  • 陸軍航空訓練センター(AAvnTC): エアバス・ヘリコプターズ H135T3 ジュノー、ユーロコプター タイガー ARH(2026年まで)
  • 陸軍航空学校: エアバス・ヘリコプターズ H135T3 ジュノー
  • 回転翼航空機整備学校(RAMS)
  • シンガポール共和国空軍第127飛行隊分遣隊: ボーイングCH-47チヌーク
  • 陸軍ヘリコプター学校: ベル206B-1カイオワ
  • 第1航空連隊: ベル206B-1カイオワ、ピラタスPC-6ポーター、, ベルUH-1Hイロコイ
オーストラリア空軍アンバーリー基地クイーンズランド州 YAMB アクティブ 04/221,523メートルコンクリート/アスファルト15/333,047メートルコンクリート/アスファルト
  • 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron: Cessna 180, Bell 47G-2 Sioux
  • 161 Reconnaissance Flight: Bell 47G Sioux, Cessna 180
  • 陸軍航空学校: ベル206B-1カイオワ
タウンズビル空軍基地クイーンズランド州 YBTL アクティブ 01/192,438メートル07/251,100メートル
Robertson BarracksNorthern Territory YDBK アクティブ
  • 162 Reconnaissance Squadron: Eurocopter Tiger ARH
  • 1st Aviation Regiment (headquarters and 161 Reconnaissance Squadron): Eurocopter Tiger ARH, Bell 206B-1 Kiowa
Luscombe Field, Nui DatBà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, Vietnam 1972年閉鎖
  • 161 Reconnaissance Flight: Bell 47G Sioux, Cessna 180, Pilatus PC-6 Porter
Vung TauBà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, Vietnam 1972年閉鎖
  • 161 Reconnaissance Flight: Bell 47G Sioux, Cessna 180, Pilatus PC-6 Porter

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戦闘序列

Who is stationed where in the Australian Army Aviation

基地ごとの飛行部隊一覧(現行部隊から順)。. The Army flies in aviation regiments of numbered squadrons — 161 and 162 Reconnaissance Squadrons in the 1st, 171st and 173rd Aviation Squadrons in the 6th — and the 1st Aviation Regiment grew out of 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron, formed in 1960. The Navy’s 723 Squadron is marked as joint and the Singapore Chinook detachment at Oakey as foreign. Where sources disagree on a date, the entry says so.

オーキー陸軍航空センター · YBOKオーストラリア陸軍航空訓練センター
陸軍航空訓練センター(AAvnTC)Training centre · active
エアバス・ヘリコプターズ H135T3 ジュノー、ユーロコプター タイガー ARH(2026年まで)
陸軍航空学校飛行学校・活動中
エアバス・ヘリコプターズ H135T3 ジュノー
回転翼航空機整備学校(RAMS)メンテナンス研修学校・現役
シンガポール共和国空軍第127飛行隊分遣隊外国ヘリコプター訓練部隊・外国
ボーイングCH-47チヌーク
陸軍ヘリコプター学校2001–
ベル206B-1カイオワ
第1航空連隊1973年~2007年
Bell 206B-1 Kiowa, Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Bell UH-1H Iroquois
RAAF Base Townsville · YBTLRAAF Base Townsville; Army units under the 16th Aviation Brigade
5th Aviation RegimentAviation regiment (transport and heavy lift) · active
CH-47F チヌーク, UH-60M ブラックホーク, S-70A-9 Black Hawk (to 2021), UH-1H Iroquois (to 2007)
1st Aviation Regiment (headquarters and 161 Reconnaissance Squadron)Aviation regiment (attack) · active
AH-64E Apache Guardian
Holsworthy Barracks (Luscombe Army) · YSHW6th Aviation Regiment, 16th Aviation Brigade
6th Aviation RegimentAviation regiment (special operations) · active
UH-60M ブラックホーク, MRH 90 Taipan (2019–2023)
171st Aviation Squadron特殊作戦航空飛行隊・現役
UH-60M ブラックホーク
173rd Aviation Squadron特殊作戦航空飛行隊・現役
UH-60M ブラックホーク, MRH 90 Taipan, Bell 206B-1 Kiowa
161 Reconnaissance Squadron
ベル206B-1カイオワ
Robertson Barracks · YDBK第1航空連隊
162 Reconnaissance Squadron
Eurocopter Tiger ARH
1st Aviation Regiment (headquarters and 161 Reconnaissance Squadron)2005–2025
Eurocopter Tiger ARH, Bell 206B-1 Kiowa
RAAF Base Amberley · YAMBオーストラリア空軍
16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron1960年~
Cessna 180, Bell 47G-2 Sioux
161 Reconnaissance Flight1965年~1965年
Bell 47G Sioux, Cessna 180
陸軍航空学校1972年~
ベル206B-1カイオワ
HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station Nowra) · YSNWRoyal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
723 Squadron joint helicopter schoolJoint Army–Navy helicopter training school · joint
Airbus Helicopters EC135T2+

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タイムライン

Australian Army Aviation milestones, 1914 to today

1912

20 September: the Minister for Defence approves a Flying Corps for the Army; first flights at Point Cook follow on 1 March 1914. In 1921 the corps becomes the core of the new RAAF, leaving the Army without aircraft.

1952

5 June: Captain Joe Luscombe, an Australian artillery officer flying with the British 1903 AOP Flight, is killed in action in Korea.

1957

1 Army Aviation Company forms at Bankstown; Cessna 180As replace its Austers in 1958.

1960

1 December: 16 Army Light Aircraft Squadron forms at RAAF Amberley with Cessna 180s and Bell 47G-2 Sioux.

1965

161 Reconnaissance Flight reaches Vung Tau on 28 September and flies its first sortie in Vietnam on 22 October.

1968

1 July: the Australian Army Aviation Corps is formed with 106 officers.

1969

1 July: the Army takes over the airfield at Oakey, its aviation home ever since.

1972

161 Reconnaissance Flight leaves Vietnam; the Kiowa begins replacing the Sioux and the School of Army Aviation forms at Oakey.

1989

The RAAF’s battlefield helicopters pass to the Army: 9 Squadron’s Black Hawks and 35 Squadron’s Iroquois form the 5th Aviation Regiment at Townsville.

1993

Six Black Hawks in UN markings support the election in Cambodia, the Army’s first operational helicopter mission abroad.

1996

12 June: two Black Hawks collide near Townsville during Exercise Day Rotor 96; 18 are killed.

1999

September: Black Hawks and Kiowas are among the first forces into East Timor with INTERFET.

2001

21 December: contract for 22 Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters; the 16th Aviation Brigade is raised on 2 April 2002.

2007

The first MRH 90 Taipans arrive; the last Iroquois retires in September or October.

2011

30 May: a Chinook crashes in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, killing Lieutenant Marcus Case.

2021

15 January: 29 AH-64E Apaches chosen to replace the Tiger. 10 December: the last S-70A-9 Black Hawks retire.

2023

28 July: a Taipan crashes off the Whitsundays, killing four. 29 September: the Taipan fleet is permanently grounded. UH-60M deliveries begin in August.

2026

September: the Tiger is retired after a farewell flypast over Darwin; six Apaches are at Townsville. A Senate committee recommends an independent review of the Taipan crash report.


戦闘記録

Every war and operation Australian Army Aviation has flown in

記録に残っている出撃回数と損失回数、そして記録が残っていない場合は正直に空白とします。.

10紛争
1951初め
3航空機が失われた
7殺害された
  • 朝鮮戦争 1951–1953 Five Australian Army pilots flew artillery observation with the British No
  • マレーシアの緊急事態 1953 Army pilots were deployed to Malaya for security operations
  • ベトナム戦争 1965年~1972年 Reconnaissance, artillery spotting and liaison flying for Australian forces
  • UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia 1993 Six Black Hawks in UN white delivered and recovered ballot boxes for the UN-run election
  • Bougainville peace process 1994–2001 Five Black Hawks supported the 1994 peace process; four red-painted UH-1H Iroquois supported the unarmed Truce and Peace Monitoring Groups from May 1998 to August 2001

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質疑応答

Everything people ask about the Australian Army Aviation

オーストラリア陸軍航空隊とは何ですか?
It is the flying arm of the Australian Army, formed as the Australian Army Aviation Corps on 1 July 1968. Its three aviation regiments (1st, 5th and 6th) belong to the 16th Aviation Brigade at Enoggera Barracks, Brisbane, and its pilots train at Oakey in Queensland. "Australian Army Aviation" is also the current title of the English Wikipedia article on the service; English is the only official name.
オーストラリア陸軍は2026年にどのようなヘリコプターを運用するだろうか?
の AH-64E アパッチ attack helicopter (six of 29 delivered by September 2026), the UH-60M ブラックホーク (40 ordered, about 15–17 delivered by mid-2025) and 14 CH-47Fチヌーク. Five H135 Junos leased from the UK fly at Oakey, and Army pilots learn on the Navy’s EC135s at Nowra. The Tiger was retired in September 2026 and the MRH 90 Taipan in 2023.
オーストラリアはなぜMRH-90タイパンの運航を停止したのか?
2023年3月22日にタイパンがジャービス湾に不時着し、同年7月28日にはウィットサンデー諸島沖で別のタイパンが墜落し、第6航空連隊の乗組員4名が死亡したことを受け、リチャード・マールズ国防大臣は2023年9月29日、同機は飛行を再開しないと発表した。長年にわたるエンジンと信頼性の問題により、当初の退役予定日(2037年)より1年以上早く退役することになり、UH-60Mは既に発注済みだった。.
2023年のタイパンの暴落の原因は何だったのか?
That is still being argued. The Defence Flight Safety Bureau concluded it was unlikely that the TopOwl helmet display contributed, but in September 2026 a Senate committee, after hearing claims that the bureau’s report had been improperly influenced, recommended an independent review of that report; the Inspector-General of the ADF had not yet handed down his findings (ABC News, 18 September 2026). The four killed were Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Max Nugent, Warrant Officer Class Two Joseph Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs.
1996年のブラックホーク事故では何が起こったのか?
1996年6月12日の夜、タウンズビル近郊の高地訓練区域で行われた演習「ローター96」の最中、ブラックホークヘリコプター1機が別のブラックホークに衝突し、テールローターに接触した。特殊空挺部隊(SAS)の隊員15名と第5航空連隊の隊員3名が死亡し、うち12名は最初のヘリコプターで、残りの6名は2機目が不時着後に炎上した際に死亡した。フォーレイズ氏の記録によると、この調査の結果、コックピットボイスレコーダーとフライトデータレコーダーが装着されることになった。.
タイガーヘリコプターはなぜ早期退役したのか?
The 22 Eurocopter Tigers ordered in 2001 arrived late and were troublesome: payments were suspended from July 2007 to May 2010, full operating capability came only in April 2016. In January 2021 the government chose 29 AH-64E アパッチ instead, and the last Tigers flew a farewell over Darwin in September 2026.
オーストラリア陸軍はベトナム戦争で航空機を運用していたのか?
Yes, but not the troop-carrying helicopters, which belonged to the RAAF. The Army’s 161 Reconnaissance Flight flew Cessna 180s, Sioux helicopters, Turbo-Porters, O-1 Bird Dogs and leased OH-58As in South Vietnam between 1965 and 1972, more than 72,000 hours in all; three of its pilots were killed.
陸軍はいつオーストラリア空軍からブラックホークとチヌークを引き継いだのですか?
The decision was made on 20 November 1986; the 5th Aviation Regiment began forming at Townsville in January 1988, and in 1989 the RAAF’s No. 9 Squadron (Black Hawks) and No. 35 Squadron (Iroquois) became its A and B Squadrons. The RAAF had retired its Chinooks in 1989; four came back as Army CH-47Ds in 1995.
オーストラリア陸軍は今でも固定翼機を運用しているのですか?
いいえ。同機が最後に運用していた固定翼機であるキングエアB350は、2009年末にオーストラリア空軍に引き渡されました。それ以前は、オースター、セスナ180、ピラタス・ターボポーター、GAFノマド、バンデイランテ、ツインオッター、キングエアなどを運用していました。.
オーストラリア陸軍航空博物館はどこにありますか?
クイーンズランド州オーキーにある陸軍航空訓練センターの隣に位置しています。第一次世界大戦以降のオーストラリア軍の航空史を網羅しており、第161偵察飛行隊がベトナム戦争で使用したすべての航空機の実物を展示しています。水曜日から土曜日まで開館しており、入場無料です。.



出典および参考文献

すべての事実を確認済み

  • Fourays: Australian Army Aviation AssociationVeterans’ association of Army aviation; index of the history pages.
  • Fourays: The Australian Flying CorpsFlying Corps approved 20 September 1912; first flights at Point Cook 1 March 1914; four AFC squadrons; RAAF formed from the AFC in 1921.
  • Fourays: The forties and fiftiesAir Observation Post revival; five Australians with 1903 AOP Flight in Korea 1951–1953; Captain Joe Luscombe killed 5 June 1952; Malaya 1953; 1 Army Aviation Company at Bankstown 1957; Cessna 180A replaced Auster Mk III 1958; 16 AOP Flight disbanded 30 November 1960.
  • フーレイ:60年代第16空挺飛行隊は1960年12月1日にアンバーリーで編成された。第161偵察飛行隊は1965年7月にブンタウで創設され、同年9月28日に初出撃、同年10月22日に72,000時間以上飛行し、3名のパイロットが死亡した。軍団は1968年7月1日に106名の将校で編成された。オーキーは1969年7月1日に陸軍に移籍した。.
  • フーレイ:70年代と80年代1972年からキオワがスーに取って代わる。ノマド。1972年陸軍航空学校。1975年第183飛行隊がパプアニューギニアを離れる。1980年ポーター2機がバヌアツへ。1986年11月20日、戦場ヘリコプターの移管が決定。1988年1月から第5航空連隊が編成される。.
  • Fourays: The ninetiesAS350B Squirrel 1990; Porter withdrawn October 1992; six Black Hawks to Cambodia 1993; five to Bougainville 1994; Nomads withdrawn 1995; first CH-47D mid-1995; 12 June 1996 collision; leased King Air and Twin Otter late 1996; PNG and Irian Jaya drought relief 1997–1998; Iroquois on Bougainville May 1998–August 2001; AAvnTC formed 1998; East Timor 1999.
  • フーレイ:2000年以降2002年4月2日に第16旅団(航空)司令部が編成されました。2001年にタイガーヘリコプター22機が発注され、最初の2機は2004年にオーキーに納入されました。2004年8月にMRH 90が選定され、46機(うち6機は海軍向け)が発注され、最初の機体は2007年に納入されました。2007年10月にヒューイヘリコプターが退役しました。2006年にフィジーでブラックホークヘリコプターが墜落し(マーク・ビングリー大尉が死亡)、2003年にイラクでチヌークヘリコプターが配備されました。2011年5月にアフガニスタンでチヌークヘリコプターが墜落し(マーカス・ケース中尉が死亡)、2003年にソロモン諸島、2006年に東ティモールに配備されました。2008年にカイオワヘリコプターが退役し、2009年に固定翼機の運用が終了しました。.
  • オーストラリア陸軍航空博物館、オーキーオーキーにある博物館は、陸軍航空訓練センターの隣にあります。水曜日から土曜日まで開館しており、入場無料です。.
  • 161 Recce Flight AssociationAssociation preserving the history of 161 Recce Flight (South Vietnam 1965–1972) and 161 Recce Squadron; collection displayed at the Oakey museum.
  • ABCニュース:「まるでフェラーリに乗っているような気分だ」:オーストラリア国防軍が攻撃ヘリコプターを退役させる(2026年9月26日)タイガーは2026年9月にダーウィンのミンディルビーチ上空での別れの飛行飛行の後、退役した。航空機22機、11億A$。アパッチ29機が45億A$で発注され、6機が納入されタウンズビルに配備されている。納入は2029年末までに完了する予定。.
  • ABC News: Taipan crash inquiry leads to recommendation for Defence report review (18 September 2026)Crew: Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Max Nugent, Warrant Officer Class Two Joseph Laycock, Corporal Alexander Naggs; DFSB found TopOwl unlikely to have contributed; Senate committee recommended an independent review of the DFSB report; IGADF inquiry yet to report.
  • ABC News: Thirty years since Black Hawk aviation disaster saw 18 killed (12 June 2026)Anniversary report on the June 1996 collision near Townsville that killed 18.
  • 国防省:PFAS調査および管理、陸軍航空センター・オーキー取得済み。詳細な環境調査が最終段階に入り、管理区域内で修復措置が実施される予定です。.

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