Northern Peninsula Airport

Northern Peninsula Airport is an airport serving Bamaga, a town near the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula and is located 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. Data current as of October 2006.

Facilities The airport resides at an elevation of above sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring .

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

Northern Peninsula Airport

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