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Charters Towers Airport
Charters Towers Airport is an airport located in Columbia, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, north of the Charters Towers CBD. History World War II During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Fifth Air Force stationed the following units at the airfield: * No. 22 Squadron RAAF, A-20 Boston * 3d Bombardment Group, (10 March 1942 – 28 January 1943) (Headquarters) : 8th Bombardment Squadron, A-20 Havoc (17–31 March 1942; 9 May 1942 – 28 January 1943) : 90th Bombardment Squadron, A-20 Havoc (8 March 1942 – 28 January 1943) * 431st Fighter Squadron ( 475th Fighter Group), P-38 Lightning (14 May – 1 July 1943) * 432d Fighter Squadron (475th Fighter Group), P-38 Lightning (14 May – 11 July 1943) * 433d Fighter Squadron (475th Fighter Group), P-38 Lightning (14 May – 17 June 1943) * 16th Bombardment Squadron (Light) (27th Bombardment Group (Light)), A-24 Dauntless (1 April – 4 May 1942) * 17th Bombardment Squadron (Light) (27th Bombardment G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charters Towers Region
The Charters Towers Region is a local government area in North Queensland, Australia southwest of, and inland from the city of Townsville, based in Charters Towers. Established in 2008, it was preceded by two previous local government areas which dated back to the 1870s. It has an estimated operating budget of A$27.5 m. History ''Gugu Badhun'' (also known as ''Koko-Badun'' and ''Kokopatun'') is an Australian Aboriginal language of North Queensland. The language region includes areas within the local government area of Charters Towers Region, particularly the localities of Greenvale and the Valley of Lagoons, and in the Upper Burdekin River area and in Abergowrie. Prior to 2008, the Charters Towers Region was an entire area of two previous and distinct local government areas: * the City of Charters Towers; * and the Shire of Dalrymple. The City of Charters Towers had its beginning in the Charters Towers Municipality which was proclaimed on 21 June 1877 under the ''Munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
53d Weapons Evaluation Group
The 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group is a United States Air Force unit that reports to the 53rd Wing. It is stationed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The unit is part of Air Combat Command. The unit was known as the 475th Fighter Group during World War II, when it operated primarily in the Southwest Pacific Theater. The 475th was perhaps the best known of the theater's Lockheed P-38 Lightning groups since its personnel included the top flying aces in the Pacific: Richard I. Bong (40 kills) and Thomas B. McGuire, Jr. (38 kills), both Medal of Honor recipients. By the war's end, 38 other pilots from the 475th had achieved ace status in P-38s. The group's commander for 20 months, Colonel Charles H. MacDonald, scored 27 kills in his famous "Putt Putt Maru" and was the seventh-ranking American ace. The group remained in the Far East until 1949 as part of the occupation forces. From 1955 to 1956, the group was an Air Defense Command interceptor group stationed at Minneapolis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airports In Queensland
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off and to land or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals, to maintain and monitor aircraft. Larger airports may have airport aprons, taxiway bridges, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. In some countries, the US in particular, airports also typically have one or more fixed-base operators, serving general aviation. Operating airports is extremely complicated, with a complex system of aircraft support services, passenger services, and aircraft control services contained within the operation. Thus airports can be major employers, as well as important hubs for tourism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Airports In Queensland
This is a list of airports in the Australian state of Queensland. __TOC__ List of airports The list is sorted by the name of the community served, click the sort buttons in the table header to switch listing order. Airports named in bold are Designated International Airports, even if they have limited or no scheduled international services. Defunct airports {, class="wikitable sortable" style="width:auto;" ! width="*" , Community ! width="*" , Airport name ! width="*" , Type ! width="*" , ICAO ! width="*" , IATA ! width="*" , Coordinates , - , Antil Plains, , Antil Plains Aerodrome, , Military, , , , , , , - , Eagle Farm, Brisbane, , Eagle Farm Airport, , Military/Public, , , , , , , - , Charters Towers, , Breddan Aerodrome, , Military, , , , , , , - , Petrie, Brisbane, , Petrie Airfield, , Military, , , , , , , - , Tarampa, , Tarampa Airfield, , Military, , , , , , , - , Townsville, , Aitkenvale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army Air Forces In Australia
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces established a series of airfields in Australia for the collective defense of the country, as well as for conducting offensive operations against the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. From these airports and airfields in Australia, the Fifth Air Force was able to regroup, re-equip and begin offensive operations against the Empire of Japan after the disasters in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies during 1942. Overview Following the Japanese conquest of the Philippines, the remnants of the USAAF Far East Air Force relocated southwest to bases in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). United States Army Air Force units in Australia, including the Fifth Air Force, were eventually reinforced and re-organized following their initial defeats in the Philippines and the East Indies. After those islands also fell to Japanese forces early in 1942, FEAF headquarters moved to Australia and was reorganized and redesignated the Fifth Air Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bore Sight Range And Compass Swinging Platform At Charters Towers Airfield
The Bore Sight Range and Compass Swinging Platform are a heritage-listed pair of aircraft testing facilities at Charters Towers Airport, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. They were built from 1942 to 1943. They are also known as Charters Towers WWII Airfield Gun Firing Range and Compass Swinging Station. They were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 May 2010. History Charters Towers Airfield was constructed for the United States Army in early 1942 to provide dispersal facilities for the main Townsville air base at Garbutt, in the event of Japanese air raids during World War II. During 1942 the US 3rd Bombardment Group was based at Charters Towers while undertaking strikes against Japanese bases in the south-west Pacific. From 1943 the airfield served as a US aircraft replacement and training centre. Facilities constructed during this period which remain include a bore sight range (a gun firing range used to check the alignment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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