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Airport or airfield

Type - Airport or airfield

Bankstown Aerodrome

Blackheath Aerodrome

Katoomba Airport

Rose Bay Airport

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Airport or airfield

Bankstown Aerodrome

General aviation aerodrome and business park in the City of Bankstown.

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Blackheath Aerodrome

Airfield built by unemployed men in 1939 as an alternative safe landing place during World War II. It was eventually abandoned after the licence was cancelled in 1955.

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Camden Airport

Airport used for flying training, charter, maintenance, gliding and ballooning. Originally the private airfield for the Macarthur family, it was requisitioned by the Commonwealth in 1939 and handed back for civil aviation in 1946.

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Katoomba Airport

Dirt airfield constructed in 1968 which provides the only runway access in the Blue Mountains.

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Rose Bay Airport

Airport which saw flying boats land and take off in the waters of Rose Bay using hangar and office facilities on the shore near Lyne Park.

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Sydney Airport

Major airport serving Sydney and Australia, which is one of the oldest continuously operating airports in the world. Successive enlargements have resulted in the reclamation of land in Botany Bay to build new runways, and the resumption of property in surrounding suburbs because of noise.

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