Camden Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Camden Airport
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IATA = CDU
ICAO = YSCN
type = Public
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operator = Camden Airport Limited
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location = Camden, New South Wales
elevation-f = 230
elevation-m = 70
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r1-number = 06/24
r1-length-f = 4,804
r1-length-m = 1,464
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 10/28
r2-length-f = 2,372
r2-length-m = 723
r2-surface = Grass
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Camden Airport airport codes|CDU|YSCN is an airport located 5 km (3 miles) from Camden, New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 60 km (37 miles) from the Sydney Central business district. Camden is used as an overflow airport for Bankstown Airport for flying training, charter and maintenance, and provides facilities for gliding and ballooning. The airport has one grass and one paved runway and two glider strips. The airport has a Non-directional beacon navigation aid and is in the south-west corner of the Sydney Training area.

History

Originally a private airstrip, the area that was to become Camden Airport was utilised by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and other Allied air forces during World War II.

Camden airfield hosted No's 4, 15, 21, 32 and 78 RAAF Squadrons at various stages during the war, in addition to the Central Flying School between 1940 and 1942, and a British transport unit, RAF No 243 Squadron, during the latter part of World War II. Camden was also the No.13 Operational Base. By 1946, the airfield had been returned to its civil status.

The Camden War Cemetery, located in the Camden General Cemetery contains twenty three burials comprising four Australian Army, two Royal Air Force and seventeen Royal Australian Air Force. Most of those buried here died in three separate air training accidents.

In 2006, it was controversially sold by the Australian government to a private company, along with Bankstown and Hoxton Park. It is now mostly used by trainee pilots for flying schools, the Australian Air League, No 3 Wing Australian Air Force Cadets, Scouts Australia NSW Air Activity Center and other forms of general aviation.

It is used as the test course for the television series Top Gear Australia

Radio procedures

Camden operates as a GAAP (General Aviation Airport Procedures) airport on Saturdays and Sundays between 9 am and 5 pm. At other times it is a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency airport. The radio frequencies are: Tower/CTAF 120.1; ATIS 125.1; NDB 281. GLIDER 122.7;

External links

* [http://www.camdenairport.com.au/HOM010.asp Camden Airport]
*WAD|YSCN

ee also

*List of Australian airports
*Transportation in Australia