On October 7 2008, Qantas Flight 72, a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport, made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following a pair of sudden uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that resulted in serious injuries to many of the occupants.
In addition to providing support services at RAAF Tindal, it also has responsibilities for the three RAAF bare bases at RAAF Scherger near Weipa, Queensland, RAAF Curtin near Derby, Western Australia and RAAF Learmonth near Exmouth, Western Australia.
On 30 April 1943, the same day as it received its Boomerangs, No. 85 Squadron established a detachment of six of these aircraft at the 'Potshot' air base at Exmouth Gulf to protect the United States Navy submarine support facilities there.
Though F-111C's could have made a round-trip to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, from RAAF Base Darwin, the route they took would have been very much limited by range.
RAAF Learmonth | RAAF Curtin | RAAF Base Williamtown | RAAF Bare Bases | RAAF bare bases | No. 77 Squadron RAAF | RAAF Base Tindal | RAAF Base Edinburgh | RAAF Base Darwin | RAAF Base Amberley | No. 34 Squadron RAAF | Thomas Livingstone Learmonth | No. 79 Squadron RAAF | No. 78 Wing RAAF | John McCauley (RAAF officer) | Charles Learmonth | Aircraft Research and Development Unit RAAF | Thomas Learmonth | Reserve Training Wing RAAF | RAAF Base Richmond | RAAF Base Mallala | No. 82 Squadron RAAF | No. 464 Squadron RAAF | No. 43 Squadron RAAF | No. 30 Squadron RAAF | No. 2 Squadron RAAF | No. 200 Flight RAAF | No. 1 Wireless Unit RAAF | No. 11 Squadron RAAF | No. 107 Squadron RAAF |
Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport on 7 October 2008 that made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following an inflight accident featuring a pair of sudden uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that resulted in serious injuries to many of the occupants.
The USAF/RSTN system is currently being upgraded in frequency to a bandwidth from 25 MHz to 180 MHz by the Solar Radio Spectrometer (SRS) system at Palehua, Hawaii; San Vito dei Normanni, Italy; Sagamore Hill, Massachusetts; and RAAF Learmonth, Western Australia.