ADELAIDE RIVER EMERGENCY LANDING GROUND (E.L.G.),
IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
DURING WW2

visits since 14 September 2002

Adelaide River E.L.G.

Plan of Adelaide River ELG

The Americans also used an other airfield on nearby Mount Bundy Station at Adelaide River. They may have referred to it as Payne Field.

Crash landing of a P-40 Kittyhawk
at Adelaide River airfield on 31 October 1942

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Doug Tilley for his assistance with this web page.

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

"Australia @ War"

This page first produced 14 September 2002

This page last updated 28 March 2011