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Cloncurry Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
616 ft / 188 m

1,157
  
3,796

Elevation
  
188 m

Location
  
Cloncurry, Queensland

06/24
  
1,157

Code
  
CNJ

Cloncurry Airport

Operator
  
Cloncurry Shire Council

Address
  
Sir Hudson Fysh Drive, Cloncurry QLD 4824, Australia

Similar
  
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Cloncurry Airport (IATA: CNJ, ICAO: YCCY) is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.

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History

Cloncurry Airport has been the focal point for many of Australia’s greatest innovations. Cloncurry was involved with the beginnings of QANTAS, and the original QANTAS hangar is still in use at the aerodrome, where "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service" is still displayed above the hangar door.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded there in 1928, now recognised the world over. The airport was also on route for early planes coming from overseas and a stopping place for contestants in the great air races of 1919 and 1934.

World War II

Due to the strategic importance of Cloncurry aerodrome on the main Darwin–Sydney air route, the Royal Australian Air Force expanded the aerodrome during World War II. Intended to be a major airbase should the Empire of Japan have occupied New Guinea and Papua.

During the Second World War, Cloncurry Airport was the site of a major United States Army Air Forces air base in 1942. As the war moved north, the USAAF units located north to forward bases.

List of wartime military units based at Cloncurry Aerodrome

  • No. 29 Operational Base Unit RAAF - 22 June 1942 – 5 July 1943
  • No. 30 Operational Base Unit RAAF - 12 December 1942 – 19 September 1946
  • No. 107 Radar Station RAAF - 1 June 1942 – 11 September 1942
  • No. 108 Radar Station RAAF - 1 June 1942 – 11 September 1942
  • USAAF 19th Bombardment Group B-17 Flying Fortress
  • 28th Bombardment Squadron, (28 March-5 May 1942) 30th Bombardment Squadron, (24 March-13 May 1942) 93d Bombardment Squadron, (29 March-18 May 1942)

    References

    Cloncurry Airport Wikipedia