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• Airline: Control Tower
• Photo Date: May 30, 2009
• Uploaded: Sep 03, 2010
• Gove - YPGV, Australia

The long abandoned Control Tower of Gove. The tower was built in age when the Department of Civil Aviation decreed that all airports serviced by jet passenger aircraft must have a fully manned control tower. All this for 2 jet movements a day 12 hours apart. The tower was closed and abandoned as part of cost cutting measures of the early nineties. There are a number of airports in Australia that now have ghostly towers that are relics of a previous era.

Photographer

Aircraft

Gove's famous aircraft shaped terminal

Martin Eadie YPGV

5,841 0 0 Airport

Photo location

Mitchell Greenland VH-SWO

2,396 2 0 Embraer 170-100LR

The fuselage of Ventura A59-73 Cn 237-6142 and RAAF Beaufort A9-501 (at right - in similar condition) at Gove / Nhulunbuy - Northern Territory in June 1984

Wal Nelowkin A59-73

4,605 1 0 Lockheed PV-1 Ventura

The fuselage of RAAF DAP Beaufort A9-501 (closer aircraft, at right) along with Ventura A59-73 (in similar condition) at Gove / Nhulunbuy - Northern Territory in June 1984

Wal Nelowkin A9-501

5,527 1 0 Bristol Beaufort Mk.VIII

Photographer

Lachlan Brendan A23-005

3,972 1 0 Pilatus PC-9A

Lachlan Brendan A3-2

6,591 1 0 Dassault Mirage 3O

Taken in the late 1950's or early 1960's

Lachlan Brendan A89-312

6,764 5 0 Lockheed P-2V-5 Neptune