Jervis Bay Airfield | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
Operator | RAN | ||||||||||||||
Location | Jervis Bay | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 200 ft / 61 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°08′48″S 150°41′48″E / 35.14667°S 150.69667°E | ||||||||||||||
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Jervis Bay Airfield (ICAO: YJBY) is a military aerodrome in the Jervis Bay Territory in Australia. It is the only aerodrome in the territory and is located about 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Sussex Inlet; and about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Jervis Bay Village and HMAS Creswell.
It was opened in 1941 as a satellite airfield of Royal Australian Air Force Base Nowra (now HMAS Albatross). It was primarily used to support torpedo training by No. 6 Operational Training Unit RAAF and search and rescue operations during World War II. During 1945 it was home to the Royal Navy Mobile Naval Air Base MONAB V (HMS <i>Nabswick</i>) and several Fleet Air Arm squadrons of the British Pacific Fleet.
The airfield was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1948. It continued to be used as a base for the RAN's GAF Jindivik pilotless target aircraft. Today the RAN's British Aerospace MQM-107E Kalkara Flight is based at the airfield, along with the RAN School of Ship Survivability and Safety that has fire and damage control (flooding) training facilities.
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- ^ YJBY – Jervis Bay (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 21 March 2024
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