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Cloncurry Airport is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland,
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.
In the late 1930s (as early as 1938, as late as 1941), the KNILM service from Batavia (
Pacific Wrecks database
* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. . * {{authority control Airports in Queensland Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Australia North West Queensland Queensland in World War II
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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.
In the late 1930s (as early as 1938, as late as 1941), the KNILM service from Batavia (Jakarta
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) to Sydney
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, connecting at Batavia from Amsterdam on KLM, called at Cloncurry. On the way South, passengers spent the night, while on the way North, they had a luncheon in Cloncurry.
In early 2022, Horizon Airways established a base in Cloncurry providing flight training for all initial and advanced training, as well as fixed wing charter flight services.
World War II
Due to the strategic importance of Cloncurry aerodrome on the main Darwin–Sydney air route, theRoyal Australian Air Force
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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 * USAAF19th Bombardment Group
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:: HQ 19th Bomb Group assigned to Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Victoria
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: 30th Bombardment Squadron, (24 March-13 May 1942)
: 93d Bombardment Squadron, (29 March-18 May 1942)
Airlines and destinations
See also
* United States Army Air Forces in Australia (World War II) * List of airports in QueenslandReferences
Pacific Wrecks database
* Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. . * {{authority control Airports in Queensland Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Australia North West Queensland Queensland in World War II