| Northern Peninsula Airport (formerly Bamaga Airport) | |||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council | ||||||||||
| Location | Bamaga, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 34 ft / 10 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 10°57′03″S 142°27′34″E / 10.95083°S 142.45944°E / -10.95083; 142.45944 | ||||||||||
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  YNPELocation in Queensland | |||||||||||
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| Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart | |||||||||||
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. It was known as Bamaga Airport or Bamaga/Injinoo Airport and had the ICAO code YBAM.
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).
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:
- No. 1 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF
- No. 5 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF
- No. 7 Squadron RAAF
- No. 23 Squadron RAAF
- No. 33 Operational Base Unit RAAF
- No. 34 Squadron RAAF
- No. 52 Radar Station RAAF was at nearby Mutee Head
- 105th Light Field Ambulance
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Skytrans Airlines | Cairns, Horn Island |
See also
References
- ^ YNPE – Northern Peninsula (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024, Aeronautical Chart Archived 10 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- "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. - Peter Dunn (3 August 2016). "Higgins Field, Qld during WW2". Australia @ War. Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- "RAAF Base Higgins". RAAF Museum. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- "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.
External links
- History of Bamaga Airfield at PacificWrecks.com
- Accident history for Bamaga Airport (IATA: ABM, ICAO: YBAM) at Aviation Safety Network
