page_title: Lawrence Hargrave
section_title: Honors and memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Lawrence Hargrave / Honors and memorials
caption_attribution_description: English: AU 20 Coombs-Wilson Reverse
context_page_description: Lawrence Hargrave, MRAeS, was an Australian engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.
context_section_description: An engraving of Lawrence Hargrave alongside some of his gliders appeared on the reverse of the Australian $20 banknote from 1966 to 1994.
  Hargrave was the subject of Barry Conyngham's opera Fly which premiered in 1984 at the Victoria State Opera.
  There is a memorial stone cairn with dedication plaque at Bald Hill, overlooking the successful manlift site.
  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 re-enactment was held in November 1994 to commemorate the manlift at Stanwell Park beach.
  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.
  A new technology building at his former school in Kirkby Lonsdale, England was named in his honour in 2017.
  A 1988 Lawrence Hargrave memorial sculpture, Winged Figure by Bert Flugelman, is located at the base of Mount Keira.
caption: From 1966 to 1994 the Australian 20 dollar note featured Hargrave on the reverse.
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