Uranquinty

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Today
Thanks to Daniel Leahy for this information and site visit. Just outside of the town was where a wartime RAAF base was located.

  Uranquinty Airfield (RAAF Uranquinty)

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Daniel Leahy 2001

Former RAAF base, that operated Wirraways during the war and the 5 Service Flying Training School. The base is now abandoned, and the remains of the base is now on private property. The engine is from a Wirraway and the plaque on the rock reads:

5 Service Flying Training School
RAAF Uranquinty

Within the Empire Air Training Scheme
during World War II graduated over fifteen hundred pilots
for the defense of Australia and the Commonwealth.

In remembrance of those killed
and especially those without known graves

 

 

 

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