St Helens Airport Tasmania (ICAO: YSTH) is a small Australian regional airport located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of St Helens on the north-east coast of Tasmania. The airport is commonly used to transport fresh seafood from the east coast to the Australian mainland. The airport also has a small flying school and scenic flights also operate out of the airport. The airport has one unsealed runway and a NDB beacon on 392 kHz.
When I was a kid we used to travel up from Hobart via Orford, Bicheno and onto St Helens, passing and having pointed out to us from the windows of the 1956 Spacemaster Vanguard, all the sites. Those sights included: Bust Me Gall, Burst Me Bladder, Black Charlie's Opening, Elephant Pass and Break Me Neck Hill. From there we did the obligatory by-pass of Launceston via Perth and headed down through the midlands, past the Disappearing House (from the wrong way so it was always a let down) via St Peter's pass where someone has spent a lifetime creating topoairy in the shape of all kinds of animals - always the highlight!!
For those of you who remember you can just fly there now.... Enjoy!
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If you have your Airport Vehicle density turned up, expect to see buses and some support vehicles. Whilst I've tried hard to suppress them all, seems that slider controls it. 75% seems to rid them.
Created using SU10 BETA (1.27.11.0)
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V1.0 - Initial release
fStopper
Thank you for all your Tasmania airports. It really enhanced the experience when discovering this beautiful part of the world.
ironpot author
Thanks for that. I'm glad you like them. Am slowly getting to re-modify them all and hopefully make them even better.
2 years ago