The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway, a development of the North American NA-16 single engine monoplane trainer, was the first aircraft to be manufactured in any real numbers in Australia. It was the first product of an Australian Government decision to establish a factory specifically to produce aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force. Two pattern aircraft, a North American NA-16-1 with fixed undercarriage, and a North American NA-16-2 with a retractable undercarriage, were delivered late in 1937 and aircraft of the first production batch of 40 CAC CA-1 Mk I Wirraways began coming off the production line just before World War II began. 580 aircraft (CA-3, 5, 7 and 9) were built as Mark IIs, including 245 built against a British contract (serials HP581 to HP843). These remained in Australia and never carried their British serials. The final batch of 150 CA-16 Mark IIIs brought the total production to 755 aircraft. The last was completed in June 1946. RAAF serial numbers ran from A20-3 to A20-757.
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