Camden Airport

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Camden Airport
IATA: CDU - ICAO: YSCN
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Camden Airport Limited
Serves		Camden, New South Wales
Elevation AMSL		230 ft (70 m)
Coordinates		34°02′25″S, 150°41′14″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06/24	4,804	1,464	Asphalt
10/28	2,372	723	Grass

Camden Airport (IATA: CDU, ICAO: YSCN) is an airport located 5 km (3 miles) from Camden, New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 60 km (37 miles) from the Sydney Central business district. Camden is used as an overflow airport for Bankstown Airport for flying training, charter and maintenance, and provides facilities for gliding and ballooning. The airport has one grass and one paved runway and two glider strips. The airport has a Non-directional beacon navigation aid and is in the south-west corner of the Sydney Training area.

1 History
2 Radio procedures
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] History

Originally a private airstrip, the area that was to become Camden Airport was utilised by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and other Allied air forces during World War II.

Camden airfield hosted No's 4, 15, 21, 32 and 78 RAAF Squadrons at various stages during the war, in addition to the Central Flying School between 1940 and 1942, and a British transport unit, RAF No 243 Squadron, during the latter part of World War II. Camden was also the No.13 Operational Base. By 1946, the airfield had been returned to its civil status.

The Camden War Cemetery, located in the Camden General Cemetery contains twenty three burials comprising four Australian Army, two Royal Air Force and seventeen Royal Australian Air Force. Most of those buried here died in three separate air training accidents.

In 2006, it was controversially sold by the Australian government to a private company, along with Bankstown and Hoxton Park. It is now mostly used by trainee pilots for flying schools, the Australian Air League and other forms of general aviation.

[edit] Radio procedures

Camden operates as a GAAP (General Aviation Airport Procedures) airport on Saturdays and Sundays between 9 am and 5 pm. At other times it is a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency airport. The radio frequencies are: Tower/CTAF 120.1; ATIS 125.1; NDB 281. GLIDER 122.7;