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Golden Eagle Airlines

defunct airlines of Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ5579342 ↗
Source-derived summary

Golden Eagle Airlines was a regional airline of north Western Australia with bases at Port Hedland, Derby and Broome. It flew charter flights to regional destinations.

Accidents

On 11 July 2012, a Golden Eagle Airlines Piper Seneca crashed shortly after takeoff from Broome Airport on its way to Port Hedland. The aircraft was located two kilometers south of Cable Beach. The pilot, who was the only person on board the aircraft, was killed.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Golden Eagle Airlines” as defunct airlines of Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Golden, Eagle and Airlines can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as defunct airlines of Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5579342. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Golden Eagle Airlines” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.