Daly Waters Airfield
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The Daly Waters Airfield, also RAAF Base Daly Waters, is a former commercial and sporadically-used military airfield located at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia. As an airfield on Australia's earliest international routes, Daly Waters was used throughout the 1920s and 1930s as a stop over for commercial airlines operating on the domestic route to Western Australia and international carriers flying from Australia into south-east Asia via Darwin. During World War II, the airbase was used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the United States Army Air Force to undertake combat operations against the Japanese in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the islands to Australia's north. Following the war, the airbase was used commercially again up until the 1970s when the airfield was sporadically-used by the RAAF.
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RAAF Base Daly Waters | |
Daly Waters, Northern Territory in Australia | |
Location in the Northern Territory | |
Coordinates | 16°15′42″S 133°22′50″E |
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Owner | Department of Defence |
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Battles/wars | Pacific War, World War II |
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Garrison | United States Army Air Forces (1942) |
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Airport type | Military airfield; Defunct civil airport | ||||||||||
Owner | Department of Defence | ||||||||||
Operator | Royal Australian Air Force | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 700 ft / 213 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 16°15′42″S 133°22′50″E | ||||||||||
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