Longreach Airport - the home of QANTAS. However, Longreach Airport is owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited, which acquired a 99-year lease over the airport from Longreach Regional Council in October 2012. Longreach Airport is located off the Lansborough Highway approximately two kilometres from the centre of Longreach.
Commercial aircraft using this airport include QantasLink (Longreach to Brisbane via Barcaldine or Blackall (and return of course), and REX Regional Express, traveling from Longreach to Townsville via Winton (and return, too).
Longreach Airport (LRE/YLRE) runway is at an elevation of 191 meters, is a Hard Surface runway measuring 1,936 meters long, and 30 meters wide.
Famous names to have visited Longreach Airport include Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, Ross and Keith Smith, Amy Johnson, and Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
This image shows the first and last Boeing to be delivered to Qantas - now housed in Longreach,
Preliminaries:
There is no cache hidden at the posted coordinates, but you will need to start there.
There is no need to enter any commercial premises for any part of this cache!
Please use the roadside footpaths where possible, and take care in crossing any roads.
A Jetset Mob Cache is a Social Cache. In order to find the location of this cache, you will need to bring along some of your friends! The more friends you have, the easier it is to find the cache.
For this cache, you need a minimum of TWO cachers to meet at the posted coordinates with their smartphones.
Technical details:
This style of cache is called a geomob. It is popular at events, where a mob of 6, 10 or even more cachers might be required before a cache is unlocked. As this isn’t part of any event, I’ve reduced the size of the mob to just 2 people to give you a taste of the geomob experience. Each cacher present will need an internet-supported smart phone.
[The original mob server was discontinued at the start of 2024; however, the experience has been recreated by talk2azs (with assistance from Mister Doctor) to run on a new server.]
Once at the listed coordinates, each of you should tap on the following link on your separate devices.
CLICK THIS LINK NOW and a new window will open. Continue to refresh this window until you are close enough and connected to the mob. You will see the message and new coordinates.
👓 If you get a Geolocation Permission error, ensure your browser‘s settings allow geolocation.
👓 Refreshing the window should also clear any GPS reading errors.
👓 Be patient - the mob refresh rate is a bit slow, so even though you might be within the mob radius you may have to wait there for a little bit until your presence is detected!
✅ It would be a great idea if someone in your group IMMEDIATELY takes a screen snapshot to minimize the risk of losing the screen. OR, you could just write down the directions or coordinates for the final.
The Cache:
You will drive to the final - it is a little bit away.
Good Luck!