sentences:  The Corps was formed on 1 July 1968 with a strength of 106 officer pilots and one NCO, however the history of Australian military and Army aviation far predates the establishment of the Corps.The earliest known Australian military aviation flights were made by a Royal Engineer Balloon Section at the Sydney Agricultural Ground on 7-8 January 1901.In late 1910, a plan for an Australian Aviation Corps was submitted to the Military Board.