YDLW
Daly Waters Airport
VFR
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Name
Daly Waters Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
YDLW / DYW / YDLW
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- Region
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Timezone
8:07 am (ACST)
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Municipality
Daly Waters
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Coordinates
16° 15′ 52″ N 133° 23′ 0″ E
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Elevation
700 ft (213 m MSL)
About Daly Waters Airport
The Daly Waters Airfield, also RAAF Base Daly Waters, is a former commercial and sporadically-used military airfield located at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia. As an airfield on Australia's earliest international routes, Daly Waters was used throughout the 1920s and 1930s as a stop over for commercial airlines operating on the domestic route to Western Australia and international carriers flying from Australia into south-east Asia via Darwin. During World War II, the airbase was used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the United States Army Air Force to undertake combat operations against the Japanese in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the islands to Australia's north.