This cache is placed in a high muggle area with lots of sports taking place at various times which can make getting a car park and retrieving the cache tricky. You will need a TOTT to retrieve the cache but you have to spot it first.
Few Canberrans would know that just beneath Dickson Sporting Fields and the nearby bustling shopping district, lies Canberra's first airport. In the 1920s the Dickson aerodrome was essentially a sheep paddock, which was turned over to become the national capital's first airfied. The airfield was originally marked on Walter Burley Griffin's plan for Canberra, and operated for a short window in 1925 and 1926, before development began for the current airport site in the Majura valley.
Despite its short existence, it was a busy few years for the Dickson aerodrome, as daring air force pilots coaxed their flimsy WWI-era biplanes into the skies to conduct a multitude of aerial photography surveys of the National Capital.
But, on February 11, 1926, tragedy struck, when a DH9 aircraft crashed on approach. "They flew in over Mount Ainslie, came in and turned. As he was turning, the plane stalled. It spun, and crashed, and blew up basically." The pilot, Duntroon College graduate Philip 'Peter' Pitt, was killed in the crash, while his observer, William Callander, died afterwards from his injuries.
Dogs are allowed off-leash if there is no organised sport being played on the playing fields. Take a walk and grab some of the other nearby caches.