After getting a pilot's license, he became a barnstormer before in 1934 winning the contract for the Charleville, Queensland to Cootamundra, New South Wales leg of the England-Australia airmail route.
Following the war, the airfield briefly used for commercial air traffic, with Butler Air Transport being the main airline offering services.
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