RAAF Base Mallala

RAAF Base Mallala
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Location	Mallala, South Australia
Built	1941
In use	1941–1960
Coordinates	34°24′54″S 138°30′17″E / 34.41500°S 138.50472°E / -34.41500; 138.50472Coordinates: 34°24′54″S 138°30′17″E / 34.41500°S 138.50472°E / -34.41500; 138.50472

RAAF Base Mallala was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base at Mallala, South Australia.

History

The base was built in 1941 as the home of No. 6 Service Flying Training School (No. 6 SFTS) during World War II. The SFTS provided advanced training for RAAF pilots, including fighter and multi-engine aircraft.^[1]

Following the cessation of hostilities, RAAF Base Mallala was a temporary base for flight test and transport support for the joint UK-Australian Weapons Research Establishment at Woomera. When RAAF Base Edinburgh opened in 1954, operations at Mallala wound down until the base closed in May 1960.^[1]

The site has been extensively modified and is now the Mallala Motor Sport Park.

Units based at RAAF Base Mallala

References

1 2 "Mallala". RAAF Museum. Retrieved 21 May 2014.

Royal Australian Air Force bases

Current bases	RAAF Base Amberley RAAF Station Bundaberg RAAF Station Camden RAAF Curtin RAAF Base Darwin RAAF Base East Sale RAAF Base Edinburgh RAAF Gingin RAAF Base Glenbrook RAAF Learmonth RAAF Base Pearce RAAF Base Richmond RAAF Scherger RAAF Base Tindal RAAF Base Townsville RAAF Base Wagga RAAF Williams RAAF Base Williamtown RAAF Woomera Airfield

Former bases	RAAF Base Albion Park RAAF Station Archerfield RAAF Station Bairnsdale RAAF Base Bowen RAAF Base Cairns RAAF Base Coffs Harbour RAAF Station Cunderdin RAAF Base Daly Waters RAAF Station Deniliquin RAAF Base Evans Head RAAF Base Fairbairn RAAF Base Gove RAAF Station Guildford RAAF Base Horn Island RAAF Jervis Bay RAAF Base Mallala RAAF Station Mascot RAAF Base Moruya RAAF Base Mildura RAAF Base Nabiac RAAF Station Narrandera RAAF Station Narromine RAAF Station Nowra RAAF Base Oakey RAAF Base Parafield RAAF Station Pokolbin RAAF Base Rathmines RAAF Station Parkes RAAF Station Sandgate RAAF Station Schofields RAAF Base Temora RAAF Base Tengah (Singapore) RAAF Station Tocumwal RAAF Ubon (Thailand) RAAF Base Uranquinty RAAF Station West Sale RAAF Base Western Junction

Overseas bases	RAAF Base Butterworth (Malaysia) RAAF Base Cocos Island (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) RAAF Base Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

Shared bases	Defence Establishment Orchard Hills

Flying boat bases	Lake Boga Flying Boat Base RAAF Base Rathmines

RAAFs Curtin, Learmonth and Scherger are so-called "bare bases"

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