Richard Bong is the namesake of the Richard Bong State Recreation Area on the site of what was to be Bong Air Force Base in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge along US Route 2 in the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior, the Bong Barracks of the Aviation Challenge program, the Richard I. Bong Bridge in Townsville, Australia, the Major Richard Ira Bong Squadron of the Arnold Air Society at the University of Wisconsin, the Richard Bong Theatre in Misawa, Japan and the 613th Air and Space Operations Center, Thirteenth Air Force, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.

Mount Isa Airport has regular daily services to Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville, as well as once-weekly services to Darwin and the Gold Coast, in addition to other services to remote Outback communities in western Queensland.

The city is served by Mackay Airport, from which Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia offer flights to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, as well as to regional destinations such as Geelong, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Gladstone.

* Queensland Section – Brisbane Airport, Bundaberg, Cairns International Airport, Charleville, Longreach, Mount Isa, Rockhampton and Townsville Airport

Unit reassigned from Melbourne to Archerfeld, then moved north to Townsville Airport, Qld.

Its main operations base was Townsville International Airport, with hubs at Cairns International Airport, Brisbane Airport and Mount Isa Airport.

** Townsville ( Townsville Airport )

* Townsville Airport

Jetstar Boeing 717 at Townsville Airport, Inaugural Jetstar flight to Townsville

Townsville Airport is a major Australian regional airport that services the city of Townsville.

The airport is also known as Townsville International Airport, and Garbutt Airport, a reference to its location in the Townsville suburb of Garbutt.

Townsville Airport is serviced by major Australian domestic and regional airlines, and in 2011 / 12 handled 1. 7 million passengers making it the 11th busiest airport in Australia.

Townsville International Airport is a common-use civilian and defence facility, sharing access with RAAF Base Townsville.

In 2005, a Townsville man was attacked and killed by a crocodile while he was canoeing with his wife at the Midway waterhole on the Normanby River.

During the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the Georgian rugby team arrived in Perth with a crowd of Perth residents welcoming them with colourful support, and a similar occurrence was noted in Townsville, Queensland where the Japanese rugby team was preferred to that of the French.

Throughout the early 1990s, SBS TV coverage was expanded further to include new areas such as the Latrobe Valley, Spencer Gulf, Darwin, north-east Tasmania, Cairns and Townsville.

Dairy Farmers Stadium was an official venue the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup, with three matches played in Townsville.

A V8 Supercars race track is located in Townsville, and the inaugural annual Townsville 400 was held in July 2009.

* 3 January 2012, Townsville, Queensland: a horse that died or was euthanised on 3 January 2012 returned a positive HeV test on 5 January 2012.

Three years after Mabo died, that being the traditional mourning period for the people of Murray Island, a gathering was held in Townsville for a memorial service.

In 1978, he was a guest research associate at Kyoto University, Japan, followed by a similar position at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.

By 10 December 1924, Tully was connected with both Townsville and Innisfail.

He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was a television station production manager and General Manager of Townsville Television from 1972 to 1996 before entering politics.

He was a member of the City of Townsville City Council from 1985 to 1996.

As Townsville developed though the mid-19th century, Magnetic Island became a valuable location for the gathering of hoop pine and granite, the latter of which was used in the reclamation of land for the Port of Townsville, and for construction of Townsville's Customs House.

A new route for the highway through Townsville was under construction with the first stage of the Townsville Ring Road ( now called The Ring Road ) already completed.

It was formerly spoken in the area around Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Support was provided to the group via use of the Loloho wharf on the eastern side of the island by naval vessels from Australia and New Zealand as well as the Kieta airfield by weekly C130 Hercules flights from Townsville.

As of 2010, it has been found that one of the Townsville branches of the Bank of Queensland was giving loans to clients of the collapsed Storm Financial.

Cook was born in Townsville, Queensland.

In 1942 the memorial stone from the Sydney grave of Robert Towns, founder of Townsville, was acquired by the Townsville City Council and erected at the summit.

The first match took place in Townsville between England and Papua New Guinea, although the official opening ceremony of the competition occurred before the Australia and New Zealand match the following day in Sydney.

In 1939, Paterson stood successfully as an alderman for the City of Townsville City Council, becoming the first member of the Communist Party to win such an office in Australia.

He spent two years as a journalist with the Townsville Bulletin, then worked as an industrial officer with the State Public Services Federation until 1993, when he was appointed economics adviser first to Senator Cheryl Kernot, the then Senate leader of the Australian Democrats, and to her successor Meg Lees.

The first indication of the strength of North Queensland rugby league came in 1921 when the Townsville representative team, captained by Arch Foley, defeated Bulimba Cup champions Toowoomba.

North Queensland in 1984 became the first regional side to reach the State League finals, losing to a powerful Wynnum Manly side which included Wally Lewis and three former North Queenslanders who were by now Australian representatives in Gene Miles, Colin Scott ( both Townsville ) and Greg Dowling ( Ingham ).

After their 1996 elimination, the Kings would not make the NBL playoffs again until 2001, when they made it to the first round before being eliminated by the Townsville Crocodiles.

He sailed from Darwin to Townsville on 8 March 1915 with four other men who were among the first 15 volunteers for active service from the Northern Territory.

Townsville broke the mould in 1993, becoming the first Australian team to hire an ' import ' player from a country other than the United States ; Lithuanian player Rimas Kurtinaitis was a crucial part of the team during their debut season.

Townsville would not reach the playoffs in its first six seasons, although they came perilously close in the 1997 season ; needing only one win from their final six games to ensure a historic playoff appearance, the Suns went 0-6 after centre Clarence Tyson suffered a season-ending knee injury in Canberra.

Throughout, Townsville fans stuck by the team, ensuring the club set an Australian record for attendances ; the Suns sold out their first 69 games at the " Furnace " ( capacity 4, 141 ), a streak that was only broken after the venue was expanded for the 1998 season.

The first official evaluation of Sister Kenny's work took place in Townsville in 1934, under the auspices of the Queensland Health Department.

The virus was first isolated in 1959 from a mosquito trapped along the Ross River in Townsville, Queensland.

Garth Tander qualified well and was racing with the front runners in the first segment of the race, then when it came to pit stops Tander made use of his fresh set of tyres and bolted and after that was never headed to take his first win in Townsville and the first since his baby girl Scarlett was born.

He scored twice in a friendly with the Newcastle United Jets FC, and eventually started repaying the faith the team had in him by scoring a double in a 3 – 2 win against North Queensland Fury FC in Townsville, in the first game of the season ; he finished the campaign-winning both the minor and the major championships-as the first Sydney player ever to reach double digits in a single season.

Airline Qantas added an extra two flights and the Townsville Bulletin newspaper chartered a Boeing 747 to take North Queensland fans to their team's first grand final.

With the new demand for international services, Townsville became the first regional Australian airport to offer direct long-distance international flights.

The same year also represented the start of a new era in domestic travel for Townsville International Airport: in February 2001, Virgin Blue ( now Virgin Australia ) made Townsville its first regional destination, and passenger figures rose by 25 % that year.

The services had represented the first time since 1994 that a Boeing 747 was used on regular service to Townsville.