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TOM MOON

06/03/1957 - 20/01/2009

I am deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic accident that claimed the life of my dear friend Tom Moon.


Tom was a member of the Museum’s Governing Committee and has been integral to our development, growth and success. Tom was part of the Museum and the Museum part of him, and it will always be a better place for having had his involvement. He has been by my side since the founding of the Museum and will be forever missed.


Tom was a dear friend, a wonderful person, a brilliant pilot and a great Australian.


On behalf of my wife Margo, and all of us at the Museum, our hearts go out to Tom’s wife Roxarne and our thoughts and prayers are with her and the rest of the family.


David Lowy AM


President and Founder

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COLIN PAY

26/10/1932 - 07/12/2007

Colin Pay was born on 26 October 1932 and from an early age he developed an interest in flying and all things mechanical. He learned to fly at Narromine in western NSW using all he could afford from his wages to satisfy the passion that continued throughout his life. After gaining his licence he flew a variety of aircraft and later became an instructor at the Narromine Aero Club. His first aircraft was a De Havilland Tiger Moth and with this he established Pays Aerial Service which later became one of the largest and most successful aerial work companies in Australia.

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GEORGE HALE

30/10/1930 - 05/09/2007

George Spaulding Hale was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 30th October 1930. He grew up in the suburb of Claremont and from an early age loved everything to do with aircraft and aviation.


On 26th February 1951 he joined the Royal Australian Air Force and undertook his flight training at No.1 Flying Training School at Point Cook, Victoria, the Home of the RAAF. Here, he trained on Tiger Moths and Wirraways and was highly successful being named Dux of the No.7 Post War Course.

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BOBBY GIBBES

06/05/1916 - 11/04/2007

Wing Commander Robert Henry Maxwell “Bobby” Gibbes DSO, DFC and BAR, OAM was born in Young on 6 May 1916. Bobby grew up on a series of family owned sheep stations before their move to Manly, a suburb of Sydney, where one of his childhood friends was Roe Cutler, later Sir Roden Cutler, VC. On leaving school, he spent time on his uncle’s property “Tremearne” and became a Jackaroo.

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TED SLY

27/04/1918 - 30/11/2013

Flt Lt. Edward Livingston Lyell “Ted” Sly, DFC, Mentioned in Despatches, was born in London on 27 April 1918 to parents George Sly RFC and mother Millie. Christened at Queens College chapel, Oxford, in the first ever military christening ceremony held there, young Edward, “Ted” had a family history that included some of the most prominent Colonial figures of the 1800s including Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell, Surveyor General of NSW between 1825 and 1855 and Ted’s Grandfather, George James Sly, Doctor of Law, who had founded the highly successful legal firm Sly and Russell.

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