No. 5 Aircraft Depot RAAF was formed in 1942 at RAAF Station Forest Hill near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.Coulthard-Clark, From the Ground Up, p. 29 The unit handled the major maintenance work on aircraft including the Bristol Beaufort,

Bristol Beaufighter The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often called the Beau) is a British multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufort ...

Lockheed Ventura The Lockheed Ventura is a twin-engine medium bomber and patrol bomber of World War II. The Ventura first entered combat in Europe as a bomber with the RAF in late 1942. Designated PV-1 by the United States Navy (US Navy), it entered combat in 1 ...

and the

B-25 Mitchell The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Major General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in ...

. After the war, No 5 Aircraft Depot was disbanded.

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* {{cite book, last=Coulthard-Clark, first=Chris, year=1997, title=From the Ground Up: The Training of RAAF Technical Ground Staff, 1948–1993, location=Canberra, publisher=RAAF Air Power Studies Centre, url=http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Publications/Details/218/From-the-Ground-Up-The-training-of-RAAF-technical-ground-staff-19481993.aspx, isbn=0-642-26509-7 5 5 City of Wagga Wagga