MMAMA Museum Building

Maryborough Military Aviation Museum

In September 2024, the Maryborough Military Aviation Museum relocated into its new home in one of the six surviving Second World War buildings at Maryborough airport. The surviving buildings which are all Queensland Heritage listed were constructed during the early 1940s as part of the facilities of RAAF Station Maryborough.  Serving the RAAF's No 3 Wireless Air Gunner School, a proposed No 3 Air Navigation School and a Recruit Training Unit. At its peak there were 127 buildings at the RAAF Station. 

The museum is housed in a P1 hut that was originally used as the parachute packing shed and following the war the then Maryborough City Council redeveloped the aerodrome as a civil airport with the building used as the airport terminal. 

The Australian ‘P’ series of huts was designed to cover all the personnel accommodation requirements of the military. The series was centred around a basic module – the ‘P1 Sleeping or Stores Hut’ which was then modified to produce the various other specific building requirements.

The traditional P1 hut was a timber framed building on stumps, the floors were tongue and groove hardwood boards, the walls were of studs between plates, nogged and braced with five window openings on each long wall. At each end of the building was a pair of ledged and braced doors of vertical v-notched tongue and groove boards. The walls were predominately clad externally with horizontal corrugated iron left unpainted. A ventilation gap covered with bird-mesh was left at the top of the walls. Roofs were clad with either corrugated galvanised iron or asbestos cement. Internally, the buildings were unlined and unfurnished except for a row of clothes hooks.