The Aviation Museum of Central Australia was opened in 1979 in the town of Alice springs. Museum exhibits are located in the hangar of the former airline "Connellan Airways in the area of Araluen, which was once the city airport. Nearby stands the house of the local aviation pioneer Eddie Connellan.

Connellan bought this hangar in 1939 at the factory in Sydney and brought in Alice springs – it housed the headquarters of his small airline, delivering mail and performing other freight transportation in the state of Northern Territory. Exactly Eddie Connellan in July 1939, made its first flight, which started not with municipal airfield.

In the late 1970s, the public Committee Alice springs has allocated 25 thousand dollars for the restoration hangar Connellan, which by that time almost expired, and turned it into an Aviation Museum. In 1982, discovered near the diorama room "Kookaburra", and in 1983, was placed on a pedestal twin-engine monoplane "Dove".

Today in the Museum you can learn about the history of aviation in Central Australia and the Northern Territory, starting with the first flight of the De Havilland committed in October 1921. Among the exhibits – aircraft of the Royal Service "Flying Doctor" training aircraft "Wackett", the aforementioned twin-engine monoplane, built in Australia glider "Kookaburra", a jet engine "Derwent", numerous relics of aviation, historical photos, and other things.

The diorama room "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 pavilion you can see the remains of the plane "Westland Widgeon", which killed the pilots. The wreckage was found in 1978 and transferred to the Museum.