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Adair's role in the establishment of the airport
I just did somenewspaper research for the South Mackay, Queensland article on the airport's history and didn't find any mention of Adair. Please see the South Mackay article and its citations. Can anyone put forward the evidence for Adair's role? Thanks Kerry (talk) 01:31, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see it probably came from Mackay Airport's History where it says

1927 –Mackay Aerodrome Site Selected: Captain Ron Adair lands his Avro Biplane on the town common and chooses this site for the aerodrome – where Mackay Airport is located today.

Unfortunately, the newspaper articles of the time don't mention Adair but do talk about Captain John Treacy, the chief pilot of Queensland Air Navigation Co. Ltd,, who flew over the town common (but is not reported as landing there) in April 1928 and recommends it as the site for the aerodrome but says it will need to be graded. Although I did not include it in the South Melbourne article, Treacy was again calling for an aerodrome on the Town Commons in Mackay in July 1929 (see here) and it is Treacy's first landing on the aerodrome in April 1930 which is the official opening of the aerodrome. Lots of Captain Treacy mentioned but no Captain Adair. Kerry (talk) 01:53, 13 November 2017 (UTC)