Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/July 19

RAAF Station Archerfield was a permanent Royal Australian Air Force station at Archerfield Airport in Brisbane, Queensland. The Station was established in September 1939 and No. 2 Elementary Flight Training School and No. 23 Squadron were based there. The Station was transferred to the United States Army Air Forces in July 1942 and became home to a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm base from February 1945. The base returned to Australian control at the end of the war, but was closed in 1955 as its grass runways were unsuitable for supporting jet aircraft.