The wreck of VH-ACJ, a cropduster, as the result of an accident at Uranquinty the day before. Thirty years later the Tiger was back as VH-AKQ. In the background work proceeds on dismantling the former RAAF hangars following decommissioning of the base

A85-453 shares the ramp with Winjeel A85-432 and Wirraway A20-715 during the final year of the Uranquinty base. Photo by John Laming.

John Laming photo of A20-640 during service with the No.1 Basic Flying Training School at Uranquinty. The based closed in 1959 and -640 was sold the same year to R. H. Grant Trading Company, which was a scrap metal dealer.

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.