Lawrence Hargrave - Honors and Memorials

Honors and Memorials

• An engraving of Lawrence Hargrave alongside some of his gliders appeared on the reverse of the Australian $20 banknote from 1966 to 1994.
• There is a memorial to him at Bald Hill overlooking Stanwell Park beach. Lawrence Hargrave Drive is a road which stretches from the Old Princes Highway in Helensburgh to the bottom of Bulli Pass in Thirroul.
• A centenary celebration and reenactment was held to commemorate the manlift in November 1994 at Stanwell Park.
• The Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Sydney University and the Hargrave-Andrew Engineering and Sciences library at Monash University are named in his honour.
• Australia's largest airline Qantas named its fifth Airbus A380 aircraft (registration VH-OQE) after Lawrence Hargrave.