Location
Located at Truscott.
Wartime
History
This single 8,000' single runway built after Drysdale
Airfield to support air operations from Western Australia. The
runway was covered with marsden matting.
Post War Clean-Up
Runway Marsden Matting was salvaged and the
strip was bitumen sealed. Abandoned along the
sides were unopened bundles of matting still painted
olive drab. A Darwin-based
scrappie 'cleaned' the place out after the war
for scrap metal, but still many relics remain.
Vehicles & Dump
Area
There is a line of trucks and a steam roller
near the beach. There were piles
of beer bottles, English steel helmets, water tanks,
stacked drums still containing oil and fuel, still-bound bundles of steel marsden
matting still painted green, long stacked rows of
three different bomb tails in open frame crates,
bomb fuses/detonators, 50 caliber and 20mm
ammo everywhere and other junk.
Today
Truscott is now a historic reserve and
nothing is allowed to be taken.
Spitfire
Burnt out remains near
the B-24 wreck. A Melbourne-based restorer got some
useful bits off this wreck. Stan Gajda adds: "In
1980 John Hardie did find one of the wheel doors near
the runway which he took as a wall trophy."
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