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9 unusual facts about Sydney Airport


Doing Time for Patsy Cline

He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin.

ExecuJet Aviation Group

Palma, Sydney, Toluca and Wellington.

Palma, Paris, Sydney, Toluca,

ExecuJet Australia was founded in 2000 and included an aircraft management and maintenance centre at Sydney Airport.

Kingsford Smith

Sydney Airport, the primary commercial airport serving Sydney, Australia

Premakumar Gunaratnam

Gunaratnam's wife, Champa Somaratna, was detained by State Intelligence Services (SIS) at Bandaranaike International Airport from a flight originating from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

Qantas Flight 32

The failure occurred over Batam Island, Indonesia, on Flight 32 from London Heathrow Airport to Sydney Airport, four minutes after taking off from Changi for the second leg of the flight.

Roambi

The app has eight of the top 10 largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the world as clients; as well as Siemens, the Dallas Cowboys, ABB, Telstra, Henkel, the Sydney Airport, and DBRS.

The Rolling Stones Far East Tour 1965

Footage in Stones Roll Down Under included their arrival at Sydney Airport, part of the airport press conference and part of the performance of "Not Fade Away" from their first Sydney show.


Advance Airlines Flight 4210

Advance Airlines Flight DR4210 was a scheduled passenger flight which crashed at Sydney Airport on 21 February 1980, killing all 13 people on board the Beech Beechcraft King Air 200 including a one-week old baby.

Bryan Jenkins

Jenkins was Director of Environment, Economics and Planning for Kinhill Engineers, Adelaide, from 1989 to 1994, undertaking projects involving the Steel Authority of India, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, water and wastewater treatment plants in China, and the third runway at Sydney Airport.

Infrastructure NSW

Other priorities for the body are the redevelopment of the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, planning of the WestConnex and traffic management around Sydney Airport and Port Botany.

R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry

Two days after the suspension he nevertheless flew a plane, setting off from Mascot airport and then flying around, over and under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.


see also

Kingsford Smith

Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), an early Australian aviation pioneer, after whom Sydney Airport is named