RAAF_Base_Glenbrook

RAAF Base Glenbrook

RAAF Base Glenbrook

Royal Australian Air Force base in New South Wales, Australia

RAAF Base Glenbrook (ICAO: YGNB)[1] is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base located in Glenbrook, in the Lower Blue Mountains, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.

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The base serves as home to Headquarters Air Command of the RAAF. There is no airfield although it has a heliport, or helicopter landing site (HLS) and most administrative services are located on the nearby RAAF Base Richmond. Parts of the 28-hectare (69-acre) site are heritage-listed and comprise the Officers' Mess, once the Lapstone Hotel.[2]

During World War Two, men stationed at the base co-ordinated the stockpiling of mustard gas in the disused Glenbrook railway tunnel.[3]

In 2009 the Minister for Defence, John Faulkner, announced that the base would be closed by 2015, and its command operations transfer to RAAF Base Amberley.[4] Closure has yet to occur.[when?]

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  1. [1]
    YGNB – Glenbrook (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 21 March 2024
  2. [2]
    "G030 : Lapstone Hotel (RAAF Base), Former". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment & Heritage, New South Wales Government. 17 January 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. [3]
    Siossian, Emma (10 January 2021). "Rock engraving throws spotlight on Australia's top-secret World War II mustard gas program". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  4. [4]
    "RAAF Glenbrook base to close in 2015". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2017.


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