RAAF Base Townsville

RAAF Base Townsville
RAAF Base Townsville
Townsville, Queensland in Australia
	RAAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III at RAAF Base Townsville in 2010.
	RAAF Base Townsville Location of the base in Queensland
Coordinates	19°15′12″S 146°45′54″E / 19.25333°S 146.76500°E
Type	Military air base
Area	900 hectares (2,200 acres)
Site information
Owner	Department of Defence
Operator	Royal Australian Air Force
Website	RAAF Base Townsville
Site history
In use	15 October 1940 – present
Garrison information
Occupants	No. 383 Squadron; No. 452 Squadron Townsville Flight; No. 27 (City of Townsville) Squadron; Combat Survival Training School; Army's No. 5 Aviation Regiment; 1 Expeditionary Health Squadron Detachment Townsville; No 2 Security Squadron detachment Townsville;
Airfield information
Identifiers	IATA: TSV, ICAO: YBTL
Elevation	5 metres (18 ft) AMSL
Runways
01/19	2,438 metres (7,999 ft) Asphalt
07/25	1,100 metres (3,609 ft) Asphalt
	Source: Enroute Supplement Australia from Airservices Australia

RAAF Base Townsville (IATA: TSV, ICAO: YBTL) (formerly RAAF Base Garbutt) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base located in Garbutt, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Townsville^[2] in Queensland, Australia. It is the headquarters for No. 1 Wing Australian Air Force Cadets^[3] and, along with Lavarack Barracks, establishes Townsville as a key military centre. The base's airfield is shared with the Townsville Airport.

^ "RAAF Base Townsville" (PDF). Department of Defence. Australian Government. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
^ ^a ^b YBTL – Townsville (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024, Aeronautical Chart Archived 10 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cite error: The named reference 1WGAAFC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).