Qantas Hangar
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Qantas Hangar, 2011
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| Location | Landsborough Highway, Longreach, Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°26′22″S 144°16′15″E / 23.4395°S 144.2708°ECoordinates: 23°26′22″S 144°16′15″E / 23.4395°S 144.2708°E |
| Design period | 1919–1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1922–1922 |
| Official name: Qantas Museum/Former Qantas Hangar, Qantas Hangar | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600664 |
| Significant period | 1920s-1930s (historical) 1922-ongoing (social) 1920s (fabric) |
| Significant components | views to, office/s, hangar |
 Location of Qantas Hangar in Queensland
Qantas Hangar, Longreach (Australia)
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Qantas Hangar is a heritage-listed former hangar and now museum at Landsborough Highway, Longreach, Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1922. It is now known as Qantas Founders Outback Museum. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The town of Longreach was gazetted in 1887 as the new terminus of the Central Western railway line extending west from Rockhampton. Prior to this, the site of Longreach was a teamsters stop; however the completion of the railway in 1892 provided the impetus for the rapid development of the town.
Interest in air transport was accelerated after the First World War. In 1919, the Australian Government offered £10,000 to the first Australian who completed the flight from England to Australia in twenty-eight days. Two returned pilots, Wilmot Hudson Fysh and Paul Joseph McGinness, with their former flight sergeant Arthur Baird as engineer, were prepared to attempt the flight but had to abandon their plans when their financial benefactor died shortly after the start of their attempt. Fysh and McGinness were experienced pilots, having been awarded with the Distinguished Flying Cross whilst serving in the Australian Flying Corps. They had also served in the Australian Light Horse and landed at Gallipoli in 1915.
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