Melbourne's New Airport (1967)

Unissued / Unused material -
Title reads: "New Jet Airport". Australian voiceovered newsreel material.
Melbourne, Australia.
MS Pan with TAA Viscount plane landing and taxiing at Essendon Airport near Melbourne. VS of airport. CU Sign 'Tullamarine Airport Project'. Various shows of construction well on the way at the new Melbourne Airport to be called Tullamarine. Various shots of Australia's Minister of Aviation, Mr Swartz and Director General, Sir Donald Anderson on a visit to the new airport. They take off on the newly completed runway in a small jet.
(Comb. F.G.) Old record suggests that material dates from around 17/09/1967.
FILM ID:3250.36
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[@yiannisdanatzis2889]

Too bad that airport was privatised later

[@johnpro2847]

1:00 Control tower for $290 000 ..bargain

[@tucoramirez6058]

Sell it off and build an airport in the south east and another in the west. Tulla has had it's day and is no longer fit for purpose.

[@Mike-pf1ru]

And you live next door. Another reason to shut it down and build Koo Wee Rup, next door to me.

[@MG101]

Tullamarine is working just fine no?