Longreach Airport code (LRE)

Longreach Airport is situated in Longreach, Queensland, Australia. The airport is 2.8 km northeast of the city. Longreach has played a major part in Australian aviation from 1919 onwards. In August of that year, a small party left the town to travel overland to survey a route suitable for competitors in the first air race to leave England en route to Australia. In 1920, the first single engine aircraft to complete the flight from England to Australia arrived. The aircraft was an Airco DH.9, piloted by Ray Parer and John McIntosh.

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