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Enjoy the Pictures there everybody, I snapped most of them myself. Gertzy

[edit] Rename proposal

According to the website International has been dropped from the offical name. I request your opinion with summary by 18 June 12:00 UTC. Soredewa 09:01, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, name of article should reflect official name. Michellecrisp 13:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

There is a problem with the name Garbutt that crops up throughout this article. Townsville Airport was established on its present site in January 1939. It has never been called Garbutt airport. RAAF Base Townsville was established on the same site in 1940. Two years later in 1942 the airfield was greatly expanded, and five other military airfields were built or occupied in the area immediately surrounding Townsville. To avoid confusion, RAAF Base Townsville was renamed RAAF Base Garbutt - the name of the local railway siding - in that year. That name persisted until 1 January 1951 when the base had returned to approximately its pre-war establishment and the surrounding airfields were all de-commissioned. Its name then reverted to RAAF Base Townsville. So for the eight years 1942-1950 Garbutt was the name of the RAAF base, but it was never the name of the civil airport. Peter Bell (talk) 08:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

There's been no response to this comment after a month, so I've re-written the first paragraphs of the history to explain the relationship between Townsville Airport and RAAF Base Townsville. Peter Bell (talk) 09:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)