File:Hoxton Park history plaque.jpg

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English: Plaque showing information about the former Hoxton Park airport. It reads:

“HISTORY OF THE FORMER HOXTON PARK AIRPORT The Airport was developed by the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942-43 as one of a series of aircraft dispersal airfields on the perimeter of Sydney. The airfield was built in case of Japanese air attack and reflects Australian fears of Japanese offensive operations against Sydney at that stage of the Pacific War. Also, RAAF pilots trained at Hoxton Park under the Empire Air Training Scheme. Hoxton Park was built as a satellite dispersal field for Bankstown airfield (Bankstown operates today) and was one of a collection of dispersal airfields built around Sydney at the time.

After World War Two, Hoxton Park Airport was leased to the Hardy Rubber Company for use as a tyre test track. Plans were made to convert it into a speedway but lobbying by aviation bodies saw it revert back to the airport. The Federal Airports Corporation (FAC) managed and operated the site from 1988 to 1998, when on 2 July 1998 Hoxton Park Airport Limited assumed the management and operation from the FAC. Hoxton Park Airport was closed in 2008.

Aerial view looking south along the former runway

(Register of the National Estate database sheet)”
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