Fred Danaher

Visiting jumper:   Fred first jumped at Labertouche as a fun jumper from 7,000ft on January 2nd 1974 during the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships.

John Dale

Visiting British Jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on January 26th 1981.

B.  Dalik

Visiting jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on November 20th 1971.

Joe Damien

Joe's first jump was at Labertouche on the 28th of February 1971.  The last time he jumped at the Centre was on March 12th 1972 from 8,500ft

Terence Daniels

Visiting Jumper:  Terry Daniels first jumped a Labertouche from 8,000ft on 13/4/74.

Graham Darr

Visiting Jumper:  Graham first jumped at Labertouche on December 21st 1975 and was a member of the team "Thrukbawn" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championships 10-Man Star Event (1975/76).

John Dash

John first jumped at Labertouche on December 9th 1973.  He was on a 10-Way star load out of VH-EYF.  He fun jumped during the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships at the Centre.

John was on the first Jumpmaster Course held at Labertouche and was issued with APF Instructor D1. 

John was a Commando Skydivers member who jumped at Labertouche regularly.    Labertouche dropzone was in the lee of the mountains to the north of it and in summer the strong north winds would sometimes stop jumping at Pakenham without interfering with jumping at Labertouche.

On occasions like that, there  were a number of Pakenham jumpers who would head for Labertouche to jump.  John was one of these and he became a regular Labertouche jumper for much of 1976 and 1977.

John married Angela Sturtevant and they have two teenage boys and live south east of Melbourne.   These days he is into pistol shooting, fast cars, and boats.

Kerry Date

Visiting jumper:  Kerry first jumped at Labertouche on June 25th 1972 from 8,500ft.

Steve Davey

Visiting jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on the 1st of January 1974 as a member of the 4-Way Team "Lead feather Chicken Hearts" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Champion-ships 1974.

Christian DavidU

Christian was ex French Foreign Legion and was an instructor in France.   He immigrated to Australia and lived at Claude's house for some time.

He was a regular jumper at the Centre until he married a local girl and went home to live in Paris.   He came back to live in Australia again in 1976.   

Returning to jump at the Centre again in late 1976, he broke his leg on a jump in January 1977.   He was hospitalised but discharged himself and went home.  He suffered an embolism a few days later and died.    

Laurie Davidson

Visiting Jumper:  Nationals 73/74   He or she jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Leroy Brown" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)   77

Ross Davidson

Visiting Jumper:   Ross jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74)  

? Davie

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on December 31st 1975 from 10,500ft.

John Davies

John's first jump was made at Labertouche on the 8th of April 1973.    John was a regular part of the Centre scene for many years.

Dale Davies

Visiting jumper:   Dale first jumped at Labertouche on December 28th 1968.

Liz Davies

Visiting jumper:   Liz first jumped at Labertouche on January 4th 1976.

Malcolm Davies

Visiting Jumper:   Malcolm first jumped at Labertouche on March 6th 1976 from 6,800ft.

Steve Davies

Visiting Jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on January 2nd 1974 as a member of the 10 Man Speed Star Team "Apple Tart" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (1974)

Wayne Davies

Visiting Jumper:  Wayne first jumped at Labertouche on December 23rd 1973.   He took part in the Australian Championships at the Centre 1973/74.

Glen Davis

Visiting jumper:  Glen first jumped at Labertouche on October 9th 1977 from 8,500ft.

Jimmie Davis

Foundation Instructor:   Jimmie's first jump was with Southern Cross Skydivers at Pakenham.    He lived in Doveton a few blocks from Claude Gillard and he took to parachuting like a fish to water and became an accomplished display jumper. 

The photo at left was taken after a water jump into the Derwent River at the Hobart Regatta in 1965 with 200,000 spectators on the bank of the river.   The team was wearing wet suits for the first time in free fall and were exiting over Hobart City.  The higher freefall speed and super fine control needed for relative work surprised them but they adjusted quickly.

The crowd gave the team a "rock star" welcome and they spent the rest of the afternoon doing radio interviews, signing autographs and posing with children for photographs.   Jimmie was particularly popular because when asked a question about the jump in the broadcast interview after the jump, he answered "I don't remember, I was so taken by the beauty of the City and the river laid out below me that I spent most of the free fall just taking it in".

Jimmie has recently reappeared on the scene and is helping Claude to renovate the Gillard Hilton.    

Joh Davis

Neil Davis

Visiting Adelaide Jumper:   Neil first jumped at Labertouche on March 9th 1980 from 8,500ft.    He was attending Instructor Examinations and passed with the highest marks ever scored in an APF exam at that time.

John Dawson

Foundation Member:  John first jumped at Labertouche on the 18th of December 1965 making three 30-second delays .   He jumped over the Christmas/New Year period making three to five jumps each day.   When he was in Melbourne and had time to spare from his business interests he came to jump at the Centre.

A successful businessman John did a great job of raising funds for the events staged at Labertouche to assist Australian Teams.   He had programs printed and sold advertising to local and national companies.

These days John would prefer to ride on a PC behind his boat.  He is a successful real estate agent and financial consultant with offices in Brisbane and Melbourne. 

Don de Jonge

Visiting Jumper:  Don first jumped at Labertouche on December 3rd 1972 from 8,500ft.    He was a member of the "The Kelly Gang" 10-Man Star Team in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships at Labertouche 1973/74.

Steve de Vroom

Visiting Jumper:   Steve first jumped at Labertouche on December 26th 1975 from 8,000ft.

Louis Delacretaz

Lou's first jump was at Labertouche on April 4th 1976.

Anne Dempsey

Visiting Jumper:   Anne practiced at the Centre and jumped in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) and as a member of the 4-Way Team "Robbie's Team" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships 1974

David Devlin

Visiting Jumper:  Dave first jumped at Labertouche on April 13th from 7,000ft.

Skip Dew

Visiting Jumper:  Skip first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of January 1973 from 12,500ft.   He took part in the 1973 Labertouche Cup.

Anthony Dicker

Visiting Jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on February 23rd 1979 with Bill Kenny and Bruce Towers in the "Snickers" television commercial.

Rod Diggins

Visiting Jumper:  Rod first jumped at Labertouche on the  13th of January 1970.

Chick Dimmack

Visiting Jumper:  Chick first jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) and competed in the 4-Way Event of the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74) 

Burnice Dineen

Visiting Jumper:   Burnice first jumped at Labertouche on January 3rd 1974 as a member of a 4-Way Team in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships 1974.

Kevin Dineen

Visiting Jumper:   One of the Singapore military team that visited Labertouche in January 1968.   First jumped at the Centre on the 26th of January that year.

Mason Dixon

Visiting Jumper:  Mason first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of December 1972 from 6,800ft.

Djanaka Djatnika

Visiting Indonesian Team Member:  Janaka first jumped at Labertouche on December 24th 1975.   He took part in the 14th Australian Parachute Championships, Accuracy Event.

Paul Dobbie

Visiting Jumper:   Paul first jumped at Labertouche on January 10th 1976.

Pat Dobby

Visiting Jumper:  Pat first jumped at Labertouche on December 27th 1975 from 7,000ft.

Graham Dodd

Visiting Jumper:  Graham first jumped at Labertouche on the 28th of January 1973 from 9,000ft.   

Graham jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "La Cosa Nostra" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)           77

John Dodd

Visiting Jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on December 16th 1975 from 8,500ft.

?  Doherty

Visiting Jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on January 4th 1973 from 8,500ft

John Donahue

Visiting Jumper:  John first jumped at Labertouche on March 12th 1977 from 9,500ft.

Ed Donnelly

Visiting jumper:  Ed first jumped at Labertouche on December 30th 1968 from the Pilatus Porter.

Mike Donelly

Visiting Jumper:  Mike first jumped at Labertouche on December 26th 1973

Tim Douglas

Visiting Jumper:  Tim first jumped at Labertouche on November 5th 1980.

Derek Doul

Visiting Jumper:  Derek first jumped at Labertouche on the 20th of July 1969.

Hugh Downey

Visiting Jumper:  Hugh first jumped at Labertouche on March 6th 1976 from 6,800ft.

Hugh Downing

Visiting Jumper:   Hugh first jumped at Labertouche on December 15th 1974 from 7,000ft.

Ron Draper

Visiting Queensland jumper:   Ron first jumped at Labertouche on the 7th of November 1971.

He jumped at the Centre in the Victorian Championships in January 1972 and later as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "La Cosa Nostra" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74).

Ron was a well known competition hang Glider pilot who visited the Centre regularly in the 70's.

Anthony Drieu

Visiting Jumper:  Tony first jumped at Labertouche on march 13th 1976 from 7,000ft.

Richard Drieu

Visiting Jumper:   Dicky first jumped at Labertouche on December 14th 1974 from 7,000ft

Valda Drew

Val's first jump was made at Labertouche on the 18th of August 1968.

Tony Duckworth

Tony's first jump was made at Labertouche on the 19th of September 1971. 

He jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "The Valley Rats" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74).

Tony became a Centre pilot and flew many hours in Swampy. He later bought Swampy and owned it for many years.

Tony was good with his hands and worked at Southern Cross Parachutes Pty Ltd's Noble Park loft for some time.

Ian Dudgeon

Visiting jumper:  Ian first jumped at the Centre on the 28th of May 1966 in the Labertouche Spectacular Hit and Run Meet, staged to raise funds for the Australian Parachute Team.

During the early years of Australian sport parachuting he was a regular weekend jumper.  He jumped a PTCH-6 on the dropzones of Asia.

Ian now lives in Canberra.

Michael Duggan

Visiting Jumper:   Mick first jumped at Labertouche in the 1973/74 Nationals.   14/12/74

Job Duivenvoorden

Visiting Sydney jumper:   Job first jumped at Labertouche on the 31st of December 1972 from 8,500ft.

Susan Duncan

L. Dyer

Visiting jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on the 12/10/67

Mike Dyer

Mike first jumped at Labertouche on December 24th 1975. 

During the time his business was in Melbourne, he was a regular jumper at the Centre.

Burnie Eaday

Visiting Jumper:   Burnie first jumped at Labertouche as a member of the 4-Way Team "Lead Feather Chicken Hearts" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships 1974

Peter Eadie

Visiting SAS Skydivers jumper:  Peter first jumped at Labertouche on July 15th 1972.   He jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Leroy Brown" in the 2nd Relative Work Championships (73/74)

Peter played a leading role in the development of Australian competition relative work and was a member of a number of Australian Relative Work Parachuting Teams.  He was Team Captain of the famous "Prometheus" 8-Way RW Team.

John Earl

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on December 14th 1975 from 7,000.

Alan Ebel

Visiting American Jumper:  Alan first jumped at Labertouche on the 28th may 1972.

He jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "The Valley Rats" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

He w as a member of the team "Aces High" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championship 10-Man Star Event. (1975/76)

Alan became one of the core group of jumpers at Labertouche and formed a relationship with one of the student jumpers that eventually blossomed into marriage.

He returned to the USA on the ?? of ?? 197?

Robert Eberhard

Visiting Jumper:   Bob first jumped at Labertouche on December 14th 1974 from 7,000ft.   25/4/75

Doug Eccles

Visiting Jumper:  Doug first jumped at Labertouche on March 27th 1967.

Bernard Eddy

Visiting Jumper:  Bernard's first jump at Labertouche was on New Years day 1974 from 8,500ft.

David Eddy

Visiting jumper:   Dave first jumped at Labertouche on December 30th 1975 from 7,000ft.

Alan Eden

Alan made his first jump on the 10th of January 1965 at Pakenham with Southern Cross Skydivers.   His first jump at Labertouche was on the 31st of July 1965 and he stayed on at the Centre to become a member of the core instruction group for many years.   He worked mainly in ab initio training and among his first jump students were Bob Courtenay, Tony Curl, Peter Ellery, Tony Hillman, Russell Jones, Roy Taylor and Phil Whatmore.  Alan held APF Instructor Rating No. 109

Alan was APF Judge No. 13 and judged many competitions at the Centre and interstate.

He was a Laboratory Technician with the Defence Department and was dedicated to his job and his jumping.

The Gardner family were local farmers that had an interest in aviation and Alan was entranced by Carolyn, one of the daughters.  They married in 1968 and after living on the other side of Melbourne in Melton for many years, now live in the Latrobe Valley area.

Tony  Edwards

Visiting Albury Jumper:  Tony made his first jump at Lae, New Guinea in 1968 and spent one and a half years jumping there before coming home to Australia.

He was an itinerant jumper around the Melbourne area for about 6 years and in 1975 was involved in the birth of Meredith Parachute Club.

Tony visited Labertouche regularly in the 70's and often jumped with the Golden Eagles.

He and Roy Marker were the Leyland Parachute Team and were into landing on truck trays and the like.  The Leyland Team became international and was active in Malaysia.

Tony was Australian Head of Delegation for the 15th WPC in Kazanlak, Bulgaria in 1980.  He also accompanied Australian Teams to Japan, Spain and Saudi Arabia. 

Tony organised the 1st World POPS Meet at the Ettamogah Pub in 1991 and jumped at the 2nd World POPS Meet in Orlando, Florida USA in 1993.

He was a long time APF Board Member,  Chairman of that Board from 1989 to 2001 and is the current APF President.

James Edwards

Visiting Jumper:   Jim first jumped at Labertouche on December 12th 1974 from 8,500ft

Phil Edwards

Visiting South Australian Jumper:  Phil's first jump at Labertouche was on the 22nd of December 1966.   He was 1963 Australian Accuracy Champion and came to Labertouche to jump in competitions and sometimes just for fun.   

He was a Gatehouse jumper and on his first Gatehouse jump demolished the north fence.   See the Gatehouse page for a photo.

Phil was in the wine trade and maybe he still is.   If you read this Phil, give us bell.

Judy Egan

Visiting Jumper:   Judy first jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74)

Bill Egan

Visiting Jumper:   Bill first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of December 1972 from  10,500ft.

Debbie Elkington

Visiting Jumper:  Debbie first jumped at Labertouche during the 13th Australian Style and Accuracy Championships as a drift indicator for the accuracy event.

Rod Ellard

Rod's first jump was at Labertouche on the 15th of April 1973.

Peter Ellery

Peter's first jump was at Labertouche on July 7th 1968.  He joined the Australian Navy as a trainee pilot and when his service with the navy finished he came back to Victoria and went into partnership with Claude to buy the Blue Goose (VH-DMS).

Last news of Peter he was flying jumpers at Toogoolawah.

Mick Elliott

Visiting Jumper:  Mick first jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Classic Parachute Championships (73/74) and was a member of the 10 Man Speed Star Team "Apple Tart" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (1974)

Kevin Eltham

Visiting Jumper:  Kevin first jumped at Labertouche on December 21st 1975 from 8,000ft.

Tony Engbarth

Visiting Jumper:   Tony first jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "True Trash" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

Thomas Ennis

Foundation member.  Tommy was a member of Southern Cross Skydivers and transferred with the club to Labertouche within weeks of Labertouche commencing operations.

The picture at left is from a newspaper clipping from 'The Sun' of December 30th 1963, describing how Tommy, Jock Moir and Helmut Hor landed in the sea off Torquay.

Helmut landed 200 yards from the beach, Tommy and Jock landed close to each other 100 yards from the beach.

Helmut lost all of his parachuting equipment and clung to a surf ski with a stranger who came to his rescue, they were picked up by a rescue boat.

Jimmie Davis ran half a mile from the dropzone to the beach and swam out to try and help Helmut, a rip carried him away and past Helmut, the boat picked him up and he was treated by a doctor for exhaustion.

Paul Etherton

Visiting jumper:  Paul first jumped at Labertouche on the 3rd of December 1971

Marilyn Ettema U

Marilyn first jumped at Labertouche on July 15th 1979.   She jumped at the Centre regularly for some time.

Her happy smiling attitude to life was infectious and she is remembered with affection by all who knew her.

She took up BASE jumping while at the 4th World Championships of Relative Work in Zephyrhills, Florida, USA and was killed making a jump into a ravine in New South wales.

Rosemary Evan-Jones

Visiting Jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on July 5th 1975 from 8,000ft.

Malcolm Evans

Mal's first jump was at Labertouche on January 14th 1980.

P. Evans

Visiting jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on the 19th of March 1967.

Natalia Faine

Natalie first jumped at Labertouche on the 9th of June 1973.  She was issued with APF A860 on the 1st of January 1974. Natalie jumped at the Centre for a long time. She was a skydiver who like many others, got a taste of aviation and went on to become a commercial pilot.   She emigrated to Canada and worked in commercial aviation.

Natalie recently returned to Australia.

Douglas Falconer

Visiting Pakenham Jumper:  Doug made his first jump at Pakenham on the ??? as a member of Commando Skydivers, he was a foundation member of Jindivik Sport Parachute Club and ParaSport.  He first jumped at Labertouche on the 8th of May 1966.

Doug jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "The Valley Rats" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

He was a member of the team "True Trash" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championships 10-Man Star Event (1975/76).

Paul Fallon

Visiting Jumper:   Paul first jumped at Labertouche on 20th of December 1980       28/08/1982

Dennis Fallwell

Visiting American Jumper:   Dennis first jumped at Labertouche on April 24th 1976.

Keith Featherstone

Visiting Jumper:   Keith first jumped at Labertouche on the 2nd of February 1972.

R. Fidler

Visiting Jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on the 18/1/70

John Fielder

Visiting Jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on the 20th of December 1971

Steve Filak

Then and later

Foundation instructor.  Steve was one of the original instructors at Labertouche.   He was glider pilot in his native Hungary before he immigrated to Australia and was instrumental in the early development of sport parachuting in this country.

He jumped with the Victorian Parachute School, Southern Cross Skydivers, Labertouche Skydivers and Eagle Skydivers.

Steve and Claude made their first display jumps together on January 22nd 1961 at Labertouche from a Piper Tri-Pacer.  They made 10 second delays from an exit height of 2,200ft.

Steve was a foundation member of the Golden Eagles Display Team and competed in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships as a member of "La Cosa Nostra" 10-Way Speed Star Team.

He was Claude's right hand man at the Centre and was part owner of "Swampy".

Allan Finlay

Visiting New Zealand jumper:  Alan's first jump was at Labertouche on New Year's Day 1973   

Joe Finta U

Joe came to Australia from his native Hungary in 1957.   He had made 64 jumps in Hungary and as civilian parachuting was just commencing when he arrived, he was a great source of knowledge.   As the only requirement to be an instructor was 50 jumps and only a handful of civilian jumpers had that many jumps; he was of great use to the fledgling sport.

After helping with the development of sport parachuting in Australia, he moved to Papua and after working and jumping there for some time, he married a Papuan.  On the 2nd of October 1970, he brought his wife to Australia and lived on site at the Labertouche dropzone for some time while working as a packer there.   Joe's first jump at Labertouche was on October 4th 1970.

He and his wife moved north for the warmer weather and after having three children they split and Joe went to live in Hong Kong.   He returned to Australia with a Philippino bride and spent the rest of his life living in Tennant Creek.

In 198? he was diagnosed with cancer and took his own life the following day.     

R. Fish

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on December 14th from 7,000ft.

Brian Fitzpatrick

Visiting Geelong Jumper: Instructor course 4/11/73

Steve Fitzsimmonds

Visiting Jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on December 21st 1975 from 7,000ft.

Mick Fleming

Visiting Jumper:   Mick first jumped at Labertouche as an advanced student in December 1975 from 5,100ft.   He qualified for Certificate "A" in May 1977.

Paul Flipo

Paul's first jump was at Labertouche on the 14th of October 1972.    He lived in outback Queensland and asked an experienced jumper where was the best place to learn to parachute.  He was told that Labertouche in Victoria was the place and so he travelled to Victoria to do his training.  He made his first free fall on New Year's Day 1973.

Paul became a celebrated canopy formation competitor and represented Australia at the ??th and ??th World Championships in Canopy Formation.

David Flood

Then and later

Visiting Jumper:   Digger first jumped at Labertouche on December 31st 1975 from 8,000ft.

Steven Foden

Visiting Jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on March 8th 1981.

Vivien Foley

Visiting Jumper:  Viv first jumped at Labertouche on March 13th 1977 from 7,000ft.

J.  Foran

Visiting military jumper:  Made his first jump at the Centre on the19th of March 1967 and acted as Dropzone Safety Officer for the weekend to allow Claude and Bill to attend to business elsewhere.

Tony Foresto

Visiting Jumper:  Tony practiced for and jumped in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) at the Centre, and competed in the 4-Way Event of the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

Ray Foster U

Ray was enticed to Australia by glowing reports of the skydiving environment from his old mates, Aussie Powers and Colin Holt.

He arrived in Australia in 1973 and took to the Australian lifestyle with a vengeance.   He was a private pilot and bought an aircraft in partnership with John Middleton to pursue his aerobatic interest.

Ray was a regular jumper at the Centre for many years and enjoyed the display jumping scene and the high life style that went with it.

He was a member of the Australian Skydiving Team at the 2nd World Championships in Relative Work at Gatton, Queensland.

He persuaded his parents to immigrate Australia and was living the good life. Tragically, he lost his life making his first base jump off the Troll Wall in Norway when he lost his footing on launch.

Hal Fostervold

Visiting American Jumper: Hal came to Labertouche on R&R from Vietnam with George Goetzke and Gus Gutshall.

All three jumped into the Gatehouse and competed in the 1969 Labertouche Cup.    They were the first group to have all jumpers on the load make it into the Gatehouse lawn.

He now lives in North Carolina not far from Johnnie Higgins of North American Aerodynamics, another old friend of Claude's.

If you see this Hal, how about a recent photo.

Chris Fowler

Visiting Northern Territory Jumper:   Chris first jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) and took part in the 4-Way Event in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (1974) 

Jumpmaster Course, September 1981

Hugh Fraser

Visiting Jumper:  Hugh first jumped at Labertouche on the 22/09/73

Jacinta Fraser

Jacinta's first jump was made at Labertouche on ??.  Her smiling face was part of the Labertouche jump scene for a long time.   

If you read this Jacinta, drop us a line and  let us know what you are doing now.    Maybe a recent photo to post on the site.

John Fraser

1968 and 1970

A member of Southern Cross Skydivers, John first jumped at Labertouche on the 28th of May 1966.  He was Australian Style Champion 1968.

John was a member of the Australian Parachute Team that took part in the 9th World Parachuting Championships at Graz, Austria, in 1968.

John married Carol and set to building a plumbing business.  He and Carol still keep in touch with the old Southern Cross Skydivers jumpers

P. Frazer

Visiting jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on January 2nd 1976 from 8,500ft.

Yvie Fregon

1972

Visiting Pakenham jumper:  Yvie first jumped at Labertouche as a visitor from ParaSport on the 4th of October 1970.

Yvie was a member of the Australian Team at the 11th World Parachuting Championships in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA 1972.

Yvie was a Librarian before leaving to live in Queensland.  She still turns up at reunion type parties.

E. Frieden

Visiting jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on March 14th 1982 from 8,500ft.

Rick Frith

Visiting jumper:  Rick first jumped at Labertouche on December 31st 1969.

John Frizwell

Frizzy

Visiting jumper:  John first jumped at Labertouche on December 22nd 1975 from 8,000ft.

He was a member of the Gold Medal winning team "Ramblers Raiders" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championship 10-Man Star Event. (1975/76)

John conducts a training operation in Queensland and spent some years as an Inspector of Sport Aviation the federal aviation authority.

He has served as an APF Board Member and many other official APF positions.

In the photo at top left, John was wearing his yellow ensemble jumping onto the lawn of the hotel at which an APF Conference was held in Victoria.   The photo bottom left was taken at the Toogoolawah 25th Anniversary Bash in June 2004.

Clive Frost

Visiting Pakenham jumper:  Clive first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of December 1966.

Ex 7th Royal Australian Regiment, Clive spent a lot of weekends at Labertouche courting the local farmer's daughters.   He joined in the Saturday night social scene with enthusiasm.

Clive was a Chef and later started his own business.  He is now retired and lives in South Australia.

Steve Gaal

Visiting American Jumper:  A Los Angeles jumper, Steve first jumped at Labertouche on the 3rd of June 1972.  

Wimoko Garjito

Visiting Indonesian Team Member:   Wimoko first jumped at Labertouche on December 28th in the 14th Australian Parachute Championships, Accuracy Event.

L. Garnett

Michael Garrard

Visiting Jumper:  Michael first jumped at Labertouche on March 11th 1973 and from time to time over the next few years.

Skratch Garrison

Visiting American jumper:  Skratch visited Labertouche on his way home to California from the 10-Way Star Meet in New Zealand in 1972 during the Labertouche Cup. 

During Skratch's stay at the Centre, he and Claude spent many hours discussing their two relative work training systems.  Skratch had included a number of jumps with no contact formation flying in his program and Claude was interested in adding no-contact flying into his course.

When Skratch was leaving, he and Ted Harrison were flown to the airport in one of the jumpships.   Most of the staff went out to the airstrip and mooned Skratch as the aircraft took off.

A few months later on one of Claude's trips to the USA he was surprised to find that he was better known on the California jump scene than he expected to be.   When he commented on it to one of his friends, he got the answer "Any president of a national parachuting organisation that will take part in a moon is certain to be well known here".

Skratch is still jumping and enjoying it.

Gordon Gecele

Visiting Darwin jumper: Gordon was a Darwin jumper who visited the Centre for competitions and sometimes to fun jump.

An inveterate gambler, he enjoyed any card game at all.  On one occasion he won the Chief Instructor's nest egg that he had put aside to go to the unofficial RW World Cup in New Zealand.

A true blue Aussie Territorian who was (and is) always welcome at the Gillard Hilton.

Mick Gerrard

Visiting Jumper:  Mick first jumped at Labertouche on February 28th 1976 from 8,000ft.

Sam Giacomantirno

Visiting Darwin Jumper:  A member of 3 RAR Parachute Club, Sam first jumped at Labertouche in March 1966.   He jumped in the Labertouche Spectacular Hit and Run Meet in May 1966.

Peter Gill

John Gilles

Visiting Jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on  November 24th 1974.

John Gillett

Visiting jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on July 30th 1967.    

Gary Gillis

Visiting jumper:   Gary first jumped at Labertouche on November 27th 1971   .

Gus Gillis

Visiting Jumper:  Gus first jumped at Labertouche on April 30th 1972.

John Ginniff

Visiting Pakenham Jumper:  John first jumped at Labertouche on February 23rd 1969.   He also was there on April 25th 1971 for the Scottish Twin Pioneer jumps from 15,000ft.

John competed in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships at the Centre. (73/74)

Col. George Goetzke (Ret)

Visiting American Jumper: George came to Australia on Rest and Recreation from the Vietnam conflict with Hal Fostervold and Gus Gutshall.

George had been given Claude Gillard's phone number by another jumper and called up to ask about midweek jumping.   Three jumpers was all you needed to fill a Cessna 172 and these guys were prepared to fly to Melbourne, so Claude arranged to have them picked up at the airport and they climbed aboard the next flight to Melbourne.

The only stop on the way to the dropzone was to pick up a crate of beer. They enjoyed their stay and got lots of jumps.   They stayed for the Labertouche Cup and shared good times with the Labertouche jumpers.   Everybody remembers their fun times.

George and Claude met again in Bangkok some years later and became close friends.   George has supported skydiving in Thailand for many years and was Aircraft Controller at the Chiang Mai CRW World Championships in 1990.

George is now retired and lives in Hua Hin, Thailand.   He has a beautiful Wolf/Malamute cross dog called Ranger.

Faye Glassford

Visiting Jumper:   Faye started jumping at ?? in 1965, she was at the Port Pirie National Championships and her first jump at Labertouche was her 8th jump, a 5 second delay on 8th of January 1966.

Faye became a keen competitor and was a member of the 19??, 19??, 19?? etc Australian Parachute Teams and was an Australian Women's Champion in 19?? etc.

She was Secretary of the North Queensland Parachute Council from 19?? to 19?? and served in a number of APF State and National positions.

She is Australian representative to the Asiania Parachute Council and has served as Secretary General of that body since its inception.

Faye was the 4th recipient of the APF Master of Sport Parachuting award.

Bill Glover

Visiting jumper:  Bill first jumped at Labertouche on April 3rd 1967.

John Goda

Visiting Alice Springs jumper:  John first jumped at the Centre on New Years Day 1971.

If our memory is correct, John is an American expat.  We don't have a photo from back then but we do have a recent one, Ray's hand obviously wasn't too steady when he took this.

He still living in Alice Springs.

Sue Goldner

Sue's first jump was at Labertouche on March 3rd 1981.

Meg Gorman

Visiting jumper:  Meg first jumped at Labertouche on January 7th 1978 from 8,500ft.

Mike Gough

Visiting jumper: Mike first jumped at Labertouche on May 20th 1967

Mike Golden

Mike's first jump was at Labertouche on the 8th of January 1966.  He earned his International B Licence on the 25th April 1969.   Most of his jumps at the Centre having been made during late 1968 and early 1969.

We heard that he spent a lot of time jumping in the Northern Territory.

Doc Goodman

Visiting Geelong Jumper:   Doc first jumped at Labertouche on December 13th 1974 from 8,000ft.

Arthur Gould

Visiting jumper:  Arthur first jumped at Labertouche on the 24th of July 1972 from the Pilatus Porter.

Garnet Gourlay

Visiting South Australian Jumper:   Upon arriving in Melbourne Garnet joined the Victorian Parachute Club and his first jump at Labertouche was on the 12th of October 1967.

Dave Graham

Dave Graham first jumped at Labertouche on April 13th 1982 from 4,500ft.

Greg Graham

Visiting Pakenham Jumper:  Greg first jumped at Labertouche on September 28th 1967.

He also jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Star Pact" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74) at the Centre.                   77

Robert Graham

Visiting jumper:   Robert first jumped at Labertouche on the 10th of January 1970.

Helen Grant

Visiting Pakenham Jumper:  Helen first jumped at Labertouche on December 14th 1974 from 6,000ft.

Helen represented Australia at the 18th World Championships in Ankara, Turkey and was an FAI Judge from ??/??/?? to ??/??/??.

Mike Gray

Visiting jumper:  Mike first jumped at Labertouche on December 26th 1975 from 10,000ft.

Peter Green

Visiting Jumper:   Peter first jumped at Labertouche on January 18th 1981 from 8,500ft.

Hugh Gregory

Visiting Canadian Jumper:   Hugh spent some time in Australia.  He first jumped at Labertouche in 1977 and travelled to and from Canada for some years.

Very well known in Australian Skydiving as an excentric who wanted to participate in all aspects of jumping, involving himself in anything and everything.   He was editor of Australian Skydiver magazine during the 2nd World Championship of Relative Work, judge's penciller at the ?? Nationals at Corowa, attended Rel Week on more than one occasion and was the cause of many a case of beer being bought by unsuspecting jumpers.

Hugh took up flying and won the Civil Aviation Authority's title "Student of the year".

John Greig

Visiting Queensland Jumper:  John earned his Aussie Star Crest at Labertouche on the ??

John later took up Canopy Relative Work and represented Australia at ??

One of skydiving's "Gentleman Jumpers".

Craig Grendon

Mike Grey

Visiting Jumper:   Mike first jumped at Labertouche at the Nationals 73/74.

Roman Grobliski

Visiting Jumper:  Probable first jump at Labertouche on the 1st of May 1982

R. Grobury

Visiting jumper:  Probably first jump at the centre was on March 4th 1982.

Leo Gronendjik

Gonzo's first jump was made at Labertouche on ??/??/??  He carried on with Eagle Skydivers to become an Instructor when they moved to Pakenham.

John Groth

Visiting jumper: John first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of December 1968.

Dieter Grousch

Visiting Jumper:  Dieter first jumped at Labertouche on December 25th 1972.   He jumped at the Centre as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "True Trash" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

Dianne Grubb

197?

Dianne's first jump was at Labertouche on ??.

Dianne was a regular jumper at the Centre for ? years and was a regular part of the Golden Eagles ground crew.

Fred Gungle

Fred's first jump was made at Labertouche on March 14th 1976.

He was regular jumper at the Centre for a long time.  He liked to push his jumping to the edge of the envelope and occasionally got up to mischief; like jumping into the backyard of the Longwarry Pub at the end of the day.

Fred is a Ski Instructor and attends the occasional Thai Boogie and similar events.

Brian Gunn

Visiting South African jumper: Brian did some style training at the Centre in September 1969.

Chris Guerney

Visiting Jumper:  Chris first jumped on December 25th 1972. He jumped in the 13th Style and Accuracy Championships (73/74) and was a member of the 10 Man Speed Star Team "True Trash" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships 1974.

Gus Gutshall

Visiting American jumper: Gus came to Labertouche on R&R from Vietnam with George Goetzke and Hal Fostervold.    His name was known to Aussie jumpers because of his reputation as a parachute instructor in United States military circles.  It was rumoured that he was with the Flying Tigers in Burma.  So he enjoyed celebrity status on the dropzone.

Gus lived up to all expectations and jumped into the Gatehouse with his two team mates.   The jumped in the 1969 Labertouche Cup.

The designer of this website, Thom Lyons was one of Gus' pupils in the 60's.

Basil Hadley

Visiting Pakenham Jumper: A member of Jindivik Sport Parachute Club, Basil first jumped at Labertouche on the 16th of April 1966.

Basil was a successful artist who painted a few skydiving scenes in his early years but burnt them in a public relations campaign along the way.

He also doctored a photo of Claude and Prince Phillip that appeared in a newspaper in which he enlarged the prince's ear inferring that he had received an ear-bashing from Claude and titled the work Gillard Of Doveton (GOD) and the name stuck for a long time.

David Hall

Visiting Jumper:   Dave first jumped at Labertouche on March 2nd 1975 from 8,000ft.   26/8/79

R. Hall

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on December 28th 1975 from 8,000ft.

David Hancock

Visiting Jumper:  Bluebaker's first jump at Labertouche was on October 19th 1980.

Ian Handley

1972

Tahlequah

Visiting Sydney jumper:  Ian first jumped at Labertouche on Boxing day 1970.   He was a regular visitor to the Centre and was invited on many of the Eagles display jumps. 

Ian was a competitor in every Style and Accuracy Championships held at Labertouche.   His nickname "Which Foot" came from his accuracy training habit of challenging whoever was on the target when he turned on final to nominate which foot he should strike the disc with.  A serial Australian accuracy champion, Ian was also a real showman when making display jumps, using tricks like landing on the roof of a double-decker bus or on the pillion seat of a motor bike driven by his wife.

He was also a member of the "Leroy Brown" 10-Man Star Team in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships at Labertouche 1973/74.

He is still an active Tandem master at Wilton.

Steve Handley

Visiting Jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on the 27th of March 1970.

Ken Hanson

Visiting Jumper:   Ken first jumped at Labertouche on the 15th of April 1970.

Robert Harmer

P. Hart

Visiting jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on January 4th 1976.

Andrew Harris

Visiting Jumper:   Andy first jumped at Labertouche on February 4th 1979.

Fiona Harrison

Fiona's first jump was at Labertouche on September 5th 1981. 

Ted Harrison

Visiting South Australian Jumper:   Ted first jumped at Labertouche in the Labertouche Cup on the 30th of January 1972.

Ted's first jump was onto Salt Ash at RAAF Williamtown as a 2nd Lt. in the Citizens Military Forces and he was the leading figure in the early development of sport parachuting in South Australia.   He organised a public meeting to form the South Australian School of Parachuting at Parafield in 1961.   He holds Australian Parachutist Certificate No: E4 and was issued with Senior Instructor Rating No: 9

As a journalist, Ted was able to assist the Australian Parachute Federation with access to the media.   His efforts were of great assistance in the APF gaining the respect of the Department of Civil Aviation.

He was the representative for South Australia on the APF Executive and helped shape the early safety rules.   His colourful language often made conservative jumpers wince but his straight talk and ability as a skydiver endeared him to all.    The first time he jumped at the Centre was in January 1968.

Ted made 50 jumps in a Wilton, New South Wales, Jumpathon to raise money for the Australian Parachute Team to attend the World Championships.

He was an active competition judge and held APF Judge Rating No. ?

All who knew him will be sad to hear that Ted died of natural causes on the morning June 27th 2004.  He was one of early parachuting's great characters.   A barrel of fun and a hard living legend in his own time. 

Anthony Hatcher

Visiting Jumper:   Tony first jumped at Labertouche on November 6th 1977 from 8,500ft.

Rory Hatchet

Visiting Jumper:  Rory first jumped at Labertouche on December 20th 1975 from 7,000ft.

P. Hayden

Visiting jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on the 30th of 4th of February 1967 

Janine Hayes

Janine's first jump was made at Labertouche on 19th of September 1981.  Always a very confident student jumper, Janine went on to become an Australian Champion and represented Australia at world championships in Nykoping - Sweden 1988, Bled - Yugoslavia 1990, Trieben - Austria 1992, Chengdu - China 1994, and Bekescsaba - Hungary 1996.  She represented Australia at the Asia/Pacific Championships at Dookie, Victoria in 1985 and won a silver medal at the Skyblossom Festival International Parachute Meet in 1991.

Janine competed in every Australian Classic Event Parachute Championships from 1985 to 1994 except 1991 and was co-organiser of the 1995 and 1996 events.   She competed in the Australian Para-Ski Championships 1993, 1994 and was one of the jumpers on the Australian record 81 person formation at Corowa in 1999.

Janine has served on the APF Board for six of the past eight years and held official positions, including National Development 1993/94, 

She ran a skydiving and aerial charter business in Queensland while married to Jim Czerwinski for some years.  She returned to Victoria and is now married to Ken Hills.

An instructor since 1984, Janine is still an active jumper and is Chief Instructor of Aerial Skydives at Latrobe Regional Airport Traralgon.

Robert Hays

Visiting Jumper:   Bob first jumped at Labertouche on September 22nd 1973.

D. Healey

Visiting Jumper:  First jumped at Labertouche on December 31st 1975 from 7,500ft.

Dominic Healy

Dominic's first jump was made at Labertouche on ??

Mike Heap

Visiting Jumper:   Mike jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Style and Accuracy Championships (73/74)  

Dennis Heenan

Visiting jumper:   Dennis first jumped at Labertouche on July 20th 1968.

John Hendry

Visiting Jumper:  John first jumped at Labertouche on December 21st 1975 as a member of the team "Metrognome" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championships 10-Man Star Event (1975/76).

Kathryn Henderson

Orange 1962

2003

Visiting South Australian Jumper:  Kathy was the only female member of the first Australian team to compete in a World Parachuting Championships; the 6th WPC at Orange, Massachusetts, USA in 1962.  She first jumped at Labertouche in January 1968.  

Kathy became a commercial pilot and was flying commercially in outback Australia.   

Her name is now Kathryn Flinn and she is Australian Governor of "The Ninety Nines, Inc" an International Women Pilots Association.

Mike Henderson

Visiting Jumper:   Doc first jumped at Labertouche on February 9th 1974.

Suzanne Henderson

Sue's first jump was made at Labertouche on ??

? Hendry

Visiting Jumper:   First Jumped at Labertouche in December 1975.

Bob Hepburn

Visiting Sydney Jumper:  Bob first jumped at Labertouche on April 29th 1972.

Catherine Herbert

Visiting Singapore Jumper:  Catherine first jumped at Labertouche on the 26th of January 1968   Chris Herbert's wife, she was a very competent skydiver.

Christopher Herbert

Visiting Singapore Jumper:  A professional salvage diver based in Singapore, Chris was the Chief Instructor of the Singapore Parachute Club and visited Labertouche in May 1967 and again with a British Army Parachute Team in January 1968.

Lyne Herron

Visiting jumper:  Lyne first jumped at Labertouche on the 5th of January 1967.

? Hertriono

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on December 27th 1975.

James Hesson

Visiting Jumper:   Jim first jumped at Labertouche on January 23rd 1977 from 8,500ft.

Stuart Hestor

Visiting jumper:   1Stuart first jumped at Labertouche on the 12th of October 1967.

Lisa Hewison

Lisa's first jump was at Labertouche on August 23rd 1981.

Brian Hewitt

Visiting Jumper: Brian's first jump at Labertouche was on the 31st of July 1966.

Paul Hickling

Visiting jumper:  1Paul first jumped at Labertouche on the 10th of January 1970.

Ken Higgins

Visiting Tasmanian jumper:   Ken first jumped at Labertouche on ??/??/??

Gahame Hill

Then & now

Visiting Sydney Jumper:  Grahame first jumped at Labertouche on the 20th of December 1972.   He practiced for and jumped in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74) at the Centre.  

Graham Hill

Visiting Jumper:  Graham first jumped at Labertouche on ?

Greg Hill

Visiting Pakenham jumper:  Greg first jumped at Labertouche on May 19th 1977 from 8,500ft.

Linda Hill

Linda first jumped at Labertouche as an advanced student in 1982. 

Tony Hillman

Then & Retired

Tony's first jump was at Labertouche on November 27th 1966.

See Staff and Display Team sections until we get time to prepare his description here.

Janine Hills

See Janine Hayes

Ken Hills

1973 and 199?

Visiting Jumper:  Kenny first jumped at Labertouche on the 31st of December 1972 in the 12th Australian Parachute Championships with the Gully Cats and they won the gold medals.   

As a member of "Joint Effort" he competed in the 1st World Championships of Relative Work Parachuting in Warendorf, Germany in 1975 and they won the silver medals.

He spent 14 years living in the USA and running a number of dropzones, mainly Muskogee.  He organised a National US Championships at Tahlequah during his stay.   He returned to Australia in 1987 and has acted at many Nationals as ground-to-air cameraman.

Kenny was Team Coach for "Early Openers" Canopy Formation Team when they won the Gold Medals in 1990 at Chiang Mai, Thailand.

He is currently jumping as a Tandem Master at Latrobe Valley Airport in Victoria.

Bryn Hilman

Bryn's first jump was at Labertouche on the 27th of November 1966.

Bryn was a Service Station owner and jumped every weekend at the Centre for a long time.   

Mark Hipgrave

Visiting Jumper:  Mark first jumped at Labertouche on the 16th of December 1973.

Dave Hobbs  U

Visiting Jumper:  Dave first jumped at Labertouche on the 26th of December 1972.

Dave jumped in Papua/New Guinea for many years and was a regular jumper in many different parts of Australia over the years.

Tom Hobbs

Visiting Jumper:  2Tom first jumped at Labertouche on the 25th of March 1970

John Hoey

Visiting jumper:  1John first jumped at Labertouche on the 11th of March 1967.

John Hogan

Visiting jumper:  John first jumped at Labertouche on June 15th 1974 from 8,500ft

Paul Hogan

Visiting jumper:   Paul first jumped at Labertouche on October 15th 1978.

Steve Holder

Visiting jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on October 9th 1977 from 8,500ft.

P. Hole

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on the 20th of January 1974.

Geoffrey Holmes

Visiting Jumper:   Geoff first jumped at Labertouche on July 25th 1980.

John Holmes

Visiting Jumper:   John first jumped at Labertouche on February 22nd 1976 from 6,000ft.

Frank Holowzak

Visiting Sydney Jumper:  Frank first jumped at Labertouche on the 15th of April 1968.   Frank was part of the early development of sport parachuting at Camden, the only Sydney dropzone in the early 60's.

Steve Holster

Visiting Jumper:  Steve first jumped at Labertouche on April 9th 1977 from 6,000ft.

Colin Holt

1970

Colin's first civilian jump was in England in 1966, his first jump  at Labertouche was a link with Marshall Power on the 28th of November 1970.

He enjoyed the Labertouche jump scene and quickly became a Centre instructor and took over supervision of the Centre's instructor school from Tony Hillman when Tony moved on.

Colin jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "La Cosa Nostra" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74)

He competed in the 1995 World Parachutists Over Phorty Meet in Empura Brava, Spain.

Colin made a major contribution to Australian parachuting as Chairman of the Victorian APF Instructor Panel.  He held regular Instructor Courses both full time and part time.  He was able to combine the best aspects of military parachuting with best practice of sport coaching to produce a very effective set of sport parachuting instructor courses.

He served the Australian Parachute Federation as a Board Member, National Director Instructors, Area Safety Officer and created the first Area Safety Officer familiarisation course.

Colin is a structural engineer and lives with his wife Marie and son Boyd in a southern suburb of Melbourne.    
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Tony Holtham

Visiting Pakenham Jumper:  Tony first jumped at Labertouche on February 23rd 1969.   

He also jumped as a member of the 10-Man Speed Star Team "Star Pact" in the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships (73/74) at the Centre.  He also visited and jumped at the Centre again in 1977 and 1980.

Cathy Horgan

Cathy's first jump was at Labertouche on the 13th March 1972 and she received her APF "A" Certificate on the 1st of July 1972.

Adrian Horsborough

Adrian's first jump was made at Labertouche on April 1st 1979 ans qualified for his Certificate "A" in March 1980. 

Bruce Horsfield

Visiting jumper:  Bruce first jumped at Labertouche on the 7th of September 1967.

Keith Horsnell

Visiting jumper:  Keith first jumped at Labertouche  on the 10th of August 1969.

Colin Horton

Visiting jumper:  Colin first jumped at Labertouche on the 22nd of December 1968.

Matthew Hoskin

Visiting Jumper:   First jumped at Labertouche on September 19th 1981 from 8,500ft.

Fred Howald

Visiting Jumper:   Fred first jumped at Labertouche on December 28th 1975

Ian Howard

Visiting Jumper:   Ian first jumped at Labertouche during the 2nd Australian Relative Work Championships on December 29th 1973.

M. Howard

Visiting Jumper:  Probably first jumped at Labertouche on the 1st of May 1982

Graham Hoy

Visiting Jumper:   Graham first jumped at Labertouche on November 13th 1977 from 8,500ft.

Geoff Hudson

Visiting Jumper:   Geoff first jumped at Labertouche on April 17th 1975 from 8,000ft.

He w as a member of the team "Aces High" in the 4th Australian Relative Work Championship 10-Man Star Event. (1975/76)

D. Huffam

Visiting Jumper:  First jump at Labertouche was a 30 second delay on the 23rd of January 1966

Michael Hughes

Visiting Jumper:  Kimbies first jumped at Labertouche on May 5th 1980.

Robert Hull

Visiting Jumper:  Bob jumped at the Centre in the 13th Australian Parachute Championships (73/74)  

Roger Hull

Visiting Jumper:   Roger first jumped at Labertouche on September 2nd 1978 from 8,500ft.

Colin Hunt

Visiting jumper:  Colin first jumped at Labertouche on January 9th 1974 from 7,000ft.

Lee Hunt

Visiting Jumper:  Lee first jumped at Labertouche on January 22nd 1978 from 8,500ft.   It was his 45th jump.

Andrew Hunter

Visiting jumper:  Andy first jumped at Labertouche on December 24th 1975 from 8,000ft.

Dave Hunter

Visiting Jumper:  Dave first jumped at Labertouche in May 1967.

Geoffrey Hunter

Foundation instructor. Geoff was a Southern Cross Skydivers member that moved to Labertouche with the club.

APF Instructor Rating No. 6

The Hunter brothers were very much a part of the pioneer skydiving fraternity.

Now a TPI Vietnam veteran, he lives on the Queensland coast.

Len Hunter

Ocean grove

Foundation instructor.  Lennie was Chief Instructor of Southern Cross Skydivers when it moved to Labertouche.   He held APF Instructor Rating No. 35 and Senior Instructor Rating No. 26.

He was a successful competition jumper and took part in many of the high profile display jumps with both Southern Cross Skydivers and Eagle Skydivers.

Lennie kept the Melbourne skydiving scene rocking with parties in his St. Kilda apartment.   Laurie Trotter being the star performer at these gatherings.

He played a central role in the development of sport parachuting in Victoria before getting married and leaving for the Northern Territory.

These days Lennie is an electrician and is working for a newspaper in Darwin. 

Peter Hunter

Visiting jumper:  Probably first jump at the centre was on March 4th 1982.

Leni Huss

Visiting Pakenham jumper:  Leni first jumped at Labertouche on the 13th of March 1967.

Chris Hutter

Visiting jumper:   Chris first jumped at Labertouche on March 3rd 1982 from 8,500ft.

Jumpmaster Course, September 1981

Anne Hyatt

Visiting Jumper:  Anne first jumped at Labertouche on January 22nd 1978 from 8,500ft.