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Hobart Airport (IATA: HBA, ICAO: YMHB) is an international airport located in Cambridge, 17 km (11 mi) north-east of the Hobart CBD. It is the major and fastest growing passenger airport in Tasmania.The Federal government owned airport is operated by the Tasmanian Gateway Consortium under a 99-year lease.The airport maintains a conjoined international and domestic terminal. The major airlines servicing the airport are Qantas, Jetstar, Rex Airlines and Virgin Australia operating domestic flights predominantly to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. International flights to Auckland, New Zealand, operate two to three times weekly with Air New Zealand. Due to the airport's southern location, Skytraders operates regular flights to Antarctica on behalf of the Australian Antarctic Division using an Airbus A319.Hobart International Airport was opened in 1956 and privatised in 1988. Occupying approximately 565 ha (1,400 acres) of land, the airport is situated on a narrow peninsula. Take-offs and landings are inevitably directed over bodies of water regardless of approach or departure direction. The region immediately surrounding the airport remains largely unpopulated, which enables the airport to operate curfew-free services.In the 2018–19 financial year, the airport handled 2.6m passenger movements, making it the ninth busiest airport in Australia.

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Hobart Airport
Grueber Avenue, Hobart Seven Mile Beach

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Hobart Airport

Grueber Avenue 6
7170 Hobart, Seven Mile Beach
Tasmania, Australia
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Hobart Airport Pty Ltd

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1946 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash
1946 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash

On Sunday 10 March 1946 a Douglas DC-3 aircraft departed from Hobart, Tasmania for a flight to Melbourne. The aircraft crashed into the sea with both engines operating less than 2 minutes after takeoff. All twenty-five people on board the aircraft died. It was Australia's worst civil aviation accident at the time.An investigation panel was promptly established to investigate the accident. The panel was unable to conclusively establish the cause but it decided the most likely cause was that the automatic pilot was inadvertently engaged shortly after takeoff while the gyroscope was caged. The Department of Civil Aviation took action to ensure that operation of the automatic pilot on-off control on Douglas DC-3 aircraft was made distinctive from operation of any other control in the cockpit, and that instructions were issued impressing on pilots that gyroscopes should be un-caged prior to takeoff. An inquiry chaired by a Supreme Court judge closely examined three different theories but found there was insufficient evidence to determine any one of them as the cause. This inquiry discovered that the captain of the aircraft was diabetic and had kept it secret from both his employer and the Department of Civil Aviation. The judge considered the captain's diabetes and self-administration of insulin probably contributed significantly to the accident but he stopped short of making this his official conclusion. In his report, the judge recommended modification of the lever actuating the automatic pilot. The inquiry uncovered four irregularities in the regulation of civil aviation in Australia and the judge made four recommendations to deal with these irregularities.