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Cloncurry Airport
Airport Directory » Australia » Cloncurry » Cloncurry AirportAirport information for Cloncurry AirportCountry: AustraliaLocation: Cloncurry Coordinates: 20.40.00S / 140.30.00E IATA Code: CNJ Timezone: GMT +10 Direct flights form Cloncurry Airport Direct flights to Cloncurry Airport Find connecting flights to Cloncurry Airport Find connecting flights from Cloncurry Airport |
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Cloncurry AirportLocation of Cloncurry Airport Queensland
Cloncurry Airport (IATA: CNJ, ICAO: YCCY) is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.
History
Cloncurry Airport has been the focal point for many of Australia’s greatest inventions. Cloncurry was regarded with the beginnings of QANTAS, and the original QANTAS Hanger is still in use at the airport, where “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service” is still exposed above the hanger door.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service was constituted there in 1928, currently recognized the world over. The airport was also on road for early aeroplanes come up from abroad and a halt location for contestants in the great air speeds of 1919 and 1934.
World War II
Due to the strategical importance of Cloncurry airport on the briny Darwin–Sydney air path, the Royal Australian Air Force spread out the airport during World War II. Intended to be a major airbase should the Imperial Japanese have busy New Guinea and Papua.
During the Second World World War II, Cloncurry Airport was the location of a major United States Army Air Force air ground in 1942. As the conflict locomoted northward, the USAAF units turn up northward to forward ground.
List of Wartime Military Units Based at Cloncurry Aerodrome
- No. 29 Operational Base Unit RAAF - 22 June 1942 - five July 1943
- No. 30 Operational Base Unit RAAF - twelve December 1942 - 19 September 1946
- No. 107 Radar Station RAAF - one June 1942 - 11 September 1942
- No. 108 Radar Station RAAF - one June 1942 - 11 September 1942
- USAAF 19th Bombardment Group B-17 Flying Fortress
- HQ 19th Bomb Group portioned to Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Vic.
- 28th Bombardment Squadron
, (28 Mar-5 May 1942)
- Detachment functioned from: Perth Airport, Perth, Western Australia, (28 Mar-18 May 1942)
- 30th Bombardment Squadron, (24 Mar-13 May 1942)
- 93d Bombardment Squadron, (29 Mar-18 May 1942)
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