RAAF Curtin
| RAAF Curtin Curtin Airport |
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| IATA: DCN – ICAO: YCIN | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military/Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | DoD / Shire of Derby/West Kimberley | ||||||||||
| Location | Derby, Western Australia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 300 ft / 91 m | ||||||||||
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RAAF Base Curtin (IATA: DCN, ICAO: YCIN) is a joint use Royal Australian Air Force base and civil airport located 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi) southeast[1] of the town of Derby on the north coast of Western Australia. As it is one of the RAAF's three 'bare bases' no Air Force units are permanently based at Curtin and it is maintained by a small caretaker staff during peacetime. The base is named in honour of former Prime Minister John Curtin.
RAAF Curtin was the first new major military airfield to be built in Australia since World War II. Construction on the base began in 1983 and it was opened on 11 June 1988.[2] The base has only been activated twice by the RAAF.[2]
From the late 1990s the base operated as Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, a Commonwealth of Australia immigration detention centre, which closed in September 2002.[3] However the centre was reopened in April 2010 to house around 60 Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers whose applications were suspended.[4]
Since 2007, direct flights have recommenced between Perth and Derby (RAAF Curtin) for the first time since Ansett stopped the service in 1992
Airline and destination
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Skippers Aviation | Broome, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek |
| Virgin Australia Regional Airlines | Perth, Kununurra |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 YCIN – Curtin (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 3 March 2016, Aeronautical Chart
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Curtin Air Base re-opened to hold asylum seekers, The Age, 18 April 2010.
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