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Redcliffe Airport (Queensland)

airport in Queensland, Australia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7305556 ↗
Source-derived summary

Redcliffe Airport (ICAO: YRED) is an aerodrome serving Redcliffe in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. It is located 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) northwest of Redcliffe, on Wirraway Drive in Rothwell, accessed via Nathan Road. The facility is owned and operated by Moreton Bay City Council, following the amalgamation of the Redcliffe City Council.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 7 ft (2 m) above sea level and has one runway designated 07/25 which measures 853 m × 18 m (2,799 ft × 59 ft). It is equipped with pilot activated low intensity runway lighting for night operations and the aerodrome also has refuelling facilities. There is no control tower and pilots must co-ordinate aircraft movements using a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF).

The airfield is home to a number of aviation training schools and aircraft maintenance facilities that service the South East Queensland region. Emergency and medical transfer aircraft now meet ambulances at the airfield since the closure of the Redcliffe Hospital Helipad in 2014.

Each year in August for World Helicopter Day a large open day event is held and is one of the biggest helicopter events in the southern hemisphere.

Fuel services at the airfield include bowsers for Jet A1 and AVGAS.

The airport has an online weather station provided by the local community for advisory weather.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Redcliffe Airport (Queensland)” as airport in Queensland, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Redcliffe, Airport and Queensland.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Redcliffe, Airport and Queensland providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Redcliffe Airport (Queensland)”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Queensland, Australia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7305556. Authority coordinates are -27.207, 153.068. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Redcliffe Airport (Queensland)” 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.