Northern_Peninsula_Airport

Northern Peninsula Airport

Northern Peninsula Airport

Airport in Queensland, Australia

Northern Peninsula Airport (IATA: ABM, ICAO: YNPE) is an airport serving Bamaga, a town near the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula and is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southeast of Injinoo in Queensland, Australia. The airport is operated by the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council.[1] It was known as Bamaga Airport or Bamaga/Injinoo Airport and had the ICAO code YBAM.[2]

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Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 34 ft (10 m) above sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 1,834 m × 30 m (6,017 ft × 98 ft).[1]

History

Built in late 1942 and known as Jacky Jacky Field, the airfield was renamed Higgins Field in 1943 in honour of Flight Lieutenant Brian Hartley Higgins. Operated as a dispersal field for Horn Island.

Royal Australian Air Force units based at Higgins Field during World War II included:[3]

Airlines and destinations

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    YNPE – Northern Peninsula (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 21 March 2024, Aeronautical Chart Archived 10 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    "Airport information for YBAM". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006.
  3. [3]
    Peter Dunn (3 August 2016). "Higgins Field, Qld during WW2". Australia @ War. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  4. [4]
    "RAAF Base Higgins". RAAF Museum. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Skytrans to help fill the void after Rex announces departure from Bamaga". Cairns York Weekly. 27 September 2023. Archived from the original on 17 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
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