Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport Cloncurry Airport is an airport in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Cloncurry Airport has been the focal point for many of Australia’s greatest innovations. Cloncurry was involved with the beginnings of QANTAS, and the original QANTAS hangar is still in use at the aerodrome, where "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service" is still displayed above the hangar door. The Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded there in 1928, now recognised the world over. The airport was also on route for early planes coming from overseas and a stopping place for contestants in the great air races of 1919 and 1934.
John Flynn (Australian politician) John Flynn (Australian politician) John Gerard Flynn (born 21 May 1953) is a former Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. John Flynn was born in Brisbane, the son of John Joseph Flynn, a postman, and Kathleen Josephine, "née" De Hayr. He attended convent school at Rosalie and then Marist Brothers College Rosalie, before studying at the University of Queensland from 1971 to 1982, receiving a Bachelor of Science (Hons, 1975) and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Hons). He married Kelyn Ann Blanch, a teacher, on 5 January 1975. From 1976 to 1977 he