Pine Creek Airfield

Pine Creek Airfield was an emergency landing ground at Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Civil airfield extended by B Company and HQ Detachment of the 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion between 11 May 1942 to 16 July 1942. The runway was 6,000 ft × 100 ft (1,829 m × 30 m) wide.

Due to housing development and road and railway construction, the runway length has now been decreased to about 700 m (2,300 ft), with a gravel surface.

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Coordinates: 13°49′30.69″S 131°50′43.64″E / 13.8251917°S 131.8454556°E / -13.8251917; 131.8454556

Airports in the Northern Territory

Public airports	Alice Springs Ayers Rock Bathurst Island Borroloola Croker Island Darwin Elcho Island Garden Point Gove Groote Eylandt Hooker Creek Kalkgurung Lake Evella Maningrida Milingimbi Ngukurr Numbulwar Oenpelli Port Keats Ramingining Smith Point Snake Bay South Goulburn Island Tennant Creek

Private airports	Jabiru McArthur River MKT The Granites Victoria River Downs

Military airports	Darwin Tindal

Defunct airports	Batchelor Coomalie Creek Daly Waters Fenton Gorrie Gould Hughes Katherine Livingstone Long MacDonald Manbulloo Parap Pell Pine Creek Sattler Strauss

Related	New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Territories of Australia

Airports in bold have scheduled service

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Pine Creek Airfield

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