A KC-97 Tanker from USAF SAC refuells a CF-100 on the ground at Patrick. While not necessary at this base the refuelling is in practice for the stops in Brazil the two CF-100s will make while being ferried to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. DND photo.

Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Operation Lookout. DND photo.

Built in 1943 and served with both USAAF and USN. Registered as above from May 1958 until May 1967 when it became 9Q-CZG. Withdrawn from use in 1970 and subsequently scrapped.

Reregistered N80LR in July 1970. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

The former RAAF base at Uranquinty looking west from the 1950s control tower. Over the next few years the air force buildings were sold and removed and the land reverted to agriculture. The concrete floor of Hangar 205 still exists, as does the floor of the hangar to its left and the one immediately below the tower. They have found new purpose as bases for farm buildings and silos.

Photo taken about a year after the RAAF base closed for the second and last time. It had been built during World War II as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme. It closed after the war and became a camp for displaced persons from Europe. The RAAF returned in September 1951 with the No. 1 Basic Flying Training School until it returned to RAAF Point Cook in December 1958. The hangars and buildings were auctioned in the 1960s and airfield sold as farmland. The control tower in the photo is not the wartime structure. That was relocated to Evetts Field near Woomera.