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Wollongong Airport
Airport Directory » Australia » Wollongong » Wollongong AirportAirport information for Wollongong AirportCountry: AustraliaLocation: Wollongong Coordinates: 34.34.00S / 150.47.00E IATA Code: WOL Timezone: GMT +10 Direct flights form Wollongong Airport Direct flights to Wollongong Airport Find connecting flights to Wollongong Airport Find connecting flights from Wollongong Airport |
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Illawarra Regional Airport (also known as Wollongong Airport) (IATA: WOL, ICAO: YWOL) is an airport turn up 18 kilometre southwestward of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Airport characteristics
Illawarra Regional Airport, owned and functioned by Shellharbour City Council, is turn up at the point of intersection of the F6, Princes Highway and Illawarra Highway at Albion Park Rail. The airport is an 80 min drive from Sydney Airport and hours from Sydney's southern suburban area. An electrical rail service is available between Sydney and Albion Park Rail on the South Coast railway line.
The airport is place to a turning Light Aeronautics Industry Cluster, Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) and a bush of touristry related to functioning. Formerly a QantasLink service to Melbourne assisted the airport but the service has been since stopped.
The Illawarra Regional Airport supplies a cost efficacious choice to the Sydney basin airports for visible light aircraft users. It is not encumbered by cut back air space or commands, which at clips, makes hold up and troubles for airplane pilots. The airport furnishes chances for touristry and business organisation development
History
RAAF Albion Park was built in 1941 as an Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Operational Base during World War II.
Satellite fields
- Cordeaux Airfield
Historical Aircraft Restoration Society
The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) is ground at Illawarra Regional Airport. HARS was characteristic in 1979 by a group of air power partisans interested in the saving of Australian Aviation History. Its foreign mission is "To find and where possible reconstruct to winging status, aircraft or typewrites of aircraft that have played a eminent division in Australian Aviation History both in the Civil and Military fields". The HARS has reconstructed: Lockheed Super Constellation, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Lockheed Neptune (273), Lockheed Neptune (566), Douglas C47 Dakota A65-94, Douglas C47 Dakota A65-95, Convair 340-67 Airliner, De Havilland Vampire A79-637, De Havilland Vampire A79-665 Bristol Beaufighter, Bell AH-1P Huey Cobra, De Havilland DHA-3 Drover, Cessna 310 VH-REK, De Havilland Tiger Moth, CAC Winjeel, Cessna C-180 and Cessna C-172.
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