Old Brisbane airport taken from a TAA Fokker Friendship, Eagle Farm, 1972. Slide by Laurel Murdoch, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Stopping at Roma on TAA Fokker Friendship, which featured a pressurised cabin for the comfort of passengers, 1965. Slide by Lynne Cain, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Plaque to Stinson crash, O'Reilly's Guest House, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. The plaque documents the air crash on 19 February 1937 of the 'City of Brisbane' with the deaths of Rex Boyden, Beverley Shepherd, James Westray, Roland Graham and William Fountain, the survival of Josiah Binstead and John Proud and the role of Bernard O'Reilly in locating the site. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Plaque at the site of the Stinson airplane that crashed February 1937, Lamington National Park, Beaudesert Shire, 1978. Slide by John Boult, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Passengers boarding a flight, Toowoomba airport, 1959. Slide by Heatherbell Mellor, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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TAA Electra aircraft, Eagle Farm Airport, 1964. The sign on the tarmac directs passengers to the front steps of the plane for seating rows 1-7, or the rear steps for rows 8-19. Slide by Eric Willmott, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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ANA DC3 and passengers at Rockhampton Airport, 1955. Slide by Eric Willmott, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Santa arrives by aircraft, Birdsville, Diamantina Shire, 1974. Slide by Dennis Costigan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Ansett aircraft  'Airlines of Australia' at Ayr Airport, 1971. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Three generations of passengers ready to board TAA 'The nation's jetline' at Ayr airport, 1962. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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