Aircraft and artefacts from the late 20th Century are being restored in South Australia's Far North.
The outback town is home to the Woomera Prohibited Area, which is a military testing range.
The missile park where the restorations are taking place contains historical satellites and rockets that have been fired off the range since 1947.
RAAF Warrant Officer and member of the Static Display Aircraft Support Section (SDASS) of Air Force History and Heritage, David Dowe, spent almost two months at the site with a team of reservists restoring the relics.
"There's approximately 20 to 25 artefacts ranging from 250-pound bombs to 1250-pound bombs to rockets," he said.
The work included restoration of the Sea Slug, a surface-to-air naval missile, and the Black Arrow satellite launcher.
It was not the first time the SDASS has visited Woomera for restoration work.
"We've been out to Woomera twice now - the first time was when the Canberra Bomber, the Jindivik and the Meteor were restored," Warrant Officer Dowe said.
"When it comes to the restoration work to those types of artefacts, we are all about the external finishing and making sure that we try to keep it as original as possible."
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The team from RAAF Base Amberley, about 50 kilometres west of Brisbane, had to stop the restorations because of coronavirus restrictions.
"We initially went out to Woomera on February 23 and our planning was to be there and complete the park by April 9," he said.
"With the coronavirus happening, we were compelled to come back into Queensland no later than 25th of March due to the closing of the borders and isolation and that sort of thing."
That meant some artefacts were not fully completed when they left the site.
"We're hoping [to return] around September sometime, depending on the border opening up," Warrant Officer Dowe said.
"We've left some of the artefacts with just primer, half-coats of the upper coat that we'll have to redo with a second coat.
"We've got photographic evidence of markings prior to doing the refurbishment - all that stencilling and markings are going to have to go back onto some of the bombs.
"There's a lot of tedious stuff that still needs to be carried out."
