Title
1984 Australia Cairns International Airport Aerial Queensland Aviation Postcard
Front
A colour aerial photograph of Cairns International Airport in far north Queensland, looking north-west across the terminal complex toward Trinity Bay, the city and the mountains beyond.
The centre of the picture is occupied by the terminal, a large low modern building with broad flat roofs of pale cream and grey, laid out in an irregular plan with projecting wings, covered walkways and canopied entrances. Landscaped grass courtyards and garden beds are set between the building arms, and a covered walkway extends from the terminal toward the apron.
On the airside to the right, aircraft stand at the gates on the dark bitumen apron. A twin-jet airliner with a T-tail in white and red livery is parked at the upper gate, a second white jet with dark markings stands at the centre stand with airstairs and ground vehicles clustered around it, and a smaller propeller-driven commuter aircraft in green and white stands further forward. Ground support equipment, baggage tractors, trailers, fuel trucks and mobile stairs are scattered across the apron, and painted stand markings and taxiway lines run across the surface. A further light aircraft is parked near the smaller general aviation buildings behind the main terminal.
On the landside to the left, extensive sealed car parks are laid out in ranked bays filled with motor cars, served by looping access roads with painted crossings, roundabouts and light poles. A coach and several delivery trucks stand at the terminal frontage, with lawns, young trees and garden beds along the approach.
Beyond the terminal the airfield extends across the middle distance, with runways and taxiways crossing broad areas of cleared ground, patches of bare reclaimed fill, drainage channels and remnant mangrove and scrub. Further airport buildings and hangars lie toward the right.
In the background the dark green mangrove fringe gives way to the pale waters of Trinity Inlet and Trinity Bay, with the city of Cairns spread along the shore as a dense low-rise townscape with a scattering of taller white buildings. Behind the city rise the steep blue-green ranges of the coastal escarpment, receding in successive layers to a hazy skyline beneath a clear blue sky.
Printed across the lower right of the image in red script lettering with a yellow outline:
“Cairns Int. Airport”
The card has a white border and a glossy photographic surface.
Back
Printed in black at upper left:
“CAIRNS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, N.Q., gateway to the North, showing Trinity Bay and the City in the background.”
Printed in black vertically down the centre of the card:
“Printed in Australia
Box 1045, Cairns, Qld., 4870, Ph. 51 4400”
Printed in black vertically at the lower centre, with the publisher’s name in a boxed device:
“PEER productions”
Printed in black within a ruled box at the upper right:
“I like to be seen — PLEASE don’t send me in an envelope.”
Four ruled address lines are printed on the right-hand panel.
Printed in black at lower left:
“PC 1064”
Printed in black at lower right:
“© Copyright 1984”
A line drawing of a coral reef scene with angelfish, butterflyfish and shells is printed in black at the lower left corner. 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
1984, as given by the printed copyright date on the reverse. The card was published by Peer Productions of Cairns with catalogue number PC 1064 and carries an Australian telephone number in the local format used before the national renumbering of the mid 1990s. The scene is consistent with that date: the new Cairns international terminal opened in the mid 1980s following the airport’s upgrading for overseas services, and the surrounding airfield is shown with large areas of freshly cleared and filled ground still under development. The aircraft on the apron, including a T-tailed twin-jet, a narrow-body jet and a commuter turboprop, together with the motor cars in the car parks, are all of early to middle 1980s type.
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