Description:Airfield can be just made out in this aerial. Administered by a trust run by the council. The Old Bar Airfield has national historic significance as a rare intact and representative example of a key "aerodrome" from the earliest days of Australian aviation which has direct and important links with the nation's major aviation pioneers, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Captain CTP Ulm, Jean Batten and Nancy Bird Walton. The airfield was a vital component in the development of Australia's air mail and aerial passenger services, was the site of an historic 1930 air pagent and was fully utilised by the RAFF during the second world war for refueling and coastal mapping and surveying. The airfield has significance for its ability to contribute to an understanding of the cultural history of Australia's earliest development of an aviation industry including air mail, passenger services and associated joy flight/aerial pageantry activity. The Old Bar Airfield has social significance to the aviation community throughout Australia and also to the local community, particularly older residents who have witnessed the town's growth in association with the airfield and who for many years have campaigned for the airfield's permanent protection. The airfield has high aesthetic significance when viewed form the air because of its coastal setting immediately adjoining the coastline within a bushland setting and with the backdrop of the Manning River Estuary.The airfield has landmark qualities for the town of Old Bar.
Jurisdictions::Mid Coast Council
