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Three generations of passengers ready to board TAA 'The nation's jetline' at Ayr airport, 1962. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Ansett F27 aircraft at Weipa airstrip, 1976. Slide by Betty Daly, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Passengers boarding a De Havilland Dragon aircraft at Cracow. The gold mining town of Cracow, two days journey by road from Rockhampton, was established in the 1930s. Ron Adair’s Aircrafts Pty Ltd commenced flights to the town on 29 December 1930, in a way not dissimilar to today’s fly-in/fly-out services to the mining industry. From February 1934 Aircrafts Pty Ltd was one of a small number of aviation organisations subsidised by the Commonwealth through a Special Grant because of their services to the community.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

aircraft

TAA aircraft at Ayr Airport, 1962

Ansett aircraft at Weipa airstrip, 1976

The Cracow connection, 1935