Aviation Museum of Central Australia was opened in 1979 in the town of Alice Springs. Exposition of the museum housed in the former airline hangar «Connellan Airways» near Araluen, which once was the city airport. Near the house is a local aviation pioneer Eddie Connellan.

Connellan bought the hangar in 1939 at a factory in Sydney and brought in Alice Springs - it housed the headquarters of his small airline, deliver mail and perform other freight transport on the Northern Territory. It was Eddie Connellan in July 1939 made its first flight, which started not from the city airport.

At the end of 1970 a public committee of Alice Springs has allocated 25 thousand dollars for the restoration hangar Connellan, who by that time almost come into disrepair, and turned it into the Museum of Aviation. In 1982, near the pavilion opened dioramic "Kookaburra", and in 1983 set up on the pedestal of a twin-engine monoplane "dove."

Today, the museum can learn about the history of aviation in Central Australia and the Northern Territory, from the first flight De Havilland committed in October 1921. Among the exhibits - the aircraft of the Royal Service "Flying Doctor" training aircraft "Vakett" said the twin-engine monoplane built in Australia Glider "Kookaburra" jet engine "Derwent", numerous relics of aviation, historical photos and other things.

Dioramic Pavilion "Kookaburra" tells the tragic story of the ill-fated flight Hitchcock and Anderson, who died in the desert in 1929 during the search for Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm. The video explains the circumstances of the tragedy, and in the hall you can see the remains of the plane, "Westland Vidzhion" in which both pilots were killed. The wreckage was found in 1978 and transferred to the museum.