1970s Australia Launceston Airport Tasmania Ansett ANA TAA Boeing 727 Postcard

Title
1970s Australia Launceston Airport Tasmania Ansett ANA TAA Boeing 727 Postcard

Front
A colour elevated view of Launceston Airport in northern Tasmania, looking across the apron toward the terminal building and the farmland beyond.

The foreground is occupied by the broad pale concrete apron, marked with painted parking guidelines and taxiway edges, with a strip of grass and ploughed red-brown earth along the bottom of the frame.

Two Boeing 727 tri-jet airliners stand parked on the apron facing the terminal. At the left is an Ansett-ANA aircraft, finished in white above and bare metal below with a broad dark red cheatline, carrying the titles “ANSETT-ANA” in red along the forward fuselage and a tall red fin bearing the airline’s white device, with airstairs and ground equipment beside it. At the right is a Trans Australia Airlines aircraft in white and bare metal with a dark cheatline, carrying the titles “TAA” with the word “JET” alongside on the rear fuselage, and a fin in white and dark blue. Both aircraft show the 727’s distinctive T-tail and rear-mounted engine arrangement, and both cast long shadows across the apron.

Behind the aircraft stands the terminal, a long low modern building of 1960s design with a flat roof, a projecting canopy and a continuous glazed frontage of tall windows framed in dark mullions. The name is displayed in widely spaced letters across the fascia, reading:

“LAUNCESTON”

A lower single-storey wing extends to either side with covered walkways and gate positions, flagpoles stand along the apron frontage, and ground equipment, baggage carts and a fuel vehicle are parked beside the building.

Beyond the terminal lies the landside forecourt with large sealed car parks filled with motor cars of 1960s and 1970s type, service roads, mown lawns and access drives, bounded by a main road running across the picture.

In the background the countryside rises gently in a patchwork of green and golden paddocks divided by hedges and shelter belts, with stands of eucalypts, scattered farm buildings and houses, and low blue hills along the horizon beneath a pale sky with light cloud. The card has a white border and a semi-glossy photographic surface.

Back
Printed in brown at upper left:

“Launceston Airport, Tasmania
Built in 1965 to afford the jet services proper facilities, the ultra modern terminal has every comfort for travellers awaiting arrivals or departures.”

Printed in brown at upper centre:

“P8035-1”

Printed in brown vertically down the centre of the card, in decorative lettering:

“National View
by Murfett Publishers, Australia”

Printed in brown at upper centre right:

“POST CARD”

Printed in brown within a ruled box at the upper right, with an Australian Made device beneath:

“PLACE
STAMP
HERE”

The remainder of the reverse is unprinted white stock with no address lines. There is no stamp, postmark, address or handwritten sender’s message; the card is unused and unposted. Light corner toning and minor edge wear are present.

Estimated Era
Circa 1970s. The caption states that the terminal was built in 1965, giving a firm earliest date, and the building is shown in its original unaltered form. The airline liveries provide the closest dating: Ansett operated under the Ansett-ANA title until it was shortened to Ansett Airlines of Australia in the late 1960s, though the older titles remained on aircraft into the following years, while Trans Australia Airlines used the TAA branding shown here until its rebranding as Australian Airlines in 1986. The Boeing 727 entered service with both carriers in the mid 1960s and operated the mainland to Tasmania trunk routes through the 1970s. The motor cars filling the car parks are of 1960s and early 1970s type, supporting a photograph taken in that period.

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