North Queensland Airways Brisbane, Queensland with De Havilland Dragon eight-seat biplanes. The airline was plagued by many accidents, three of them accompanied by fatalities: Following this final disaster NQA went into liquidation, and on 25 October 1938 its assets were purchased in full by Airlines of Australia. Its airline services were maintained by the new owner and its successor Australian National Airways. North Queensland Airways North Queensland Airways Pty. Ltd. (NQA) was an Australian company established on 7 May 1936 to operate air services in Queensland, Australia. With its headquarters at Cairns, Queensland it initially had a share capital of 50,000 pounds in
Tropical North Queensland Wet Tropics. Within the tourism industry, the phrase is used to mean varying areas of the tropical region of the state, usually within Far North Queensland. Different government departments also have varying definitions for what is meant by "Tropical North Queensland" and Tropical Australia. Tropical North Queensland Tropical North Queensland is the northern part of Queensland, Australia, an area from about the city of Mackay north to the tip of Cape York. The tropical region of Queensland covers 54% of the state's area some , and includes the whole area above the latitude 23.5 degrees south, taking in an area