The Royal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility provides an insight into the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Bombing of Darwin Harbour.
See, experience and learn through the wonder of technology as this facility brings history to life.
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Learn about the history and the activities of the RFDS’s pilots, engineers, doctors and nurses and patients that are carried and cared for each day.
- Life size hologram of John Flynn the Founder of the Flying Doctor Service tells his story of the birth and growth of the RFDS.
- Meet Alf Traeger and Nurse Kathy as interactive story telling holograms.
- A decommissioned RFDS Pilatus PC 12 aircraft that allows visitors inside the aircraft and experience a fully aero medically equipped fitout.
- Two virtual reality experiences with the Royal Flying Doctor Service
Bombing of Darwin Harbour
Relive the drama of the Bombing of Darwin Harbour that rocked Australia in 1942.
- Life size hologram of Rear Admiral Etheridge Grant narrates his experience of the Bombing of Darwin Harbour.
- Meet Prime Minister John Curtin and Japanese Pilot Hajime Toyoshima as interactive story telling holograms
- Virtual Reality of the bombing of Darwin Harbour. This production is the pinnacle of a movie production for VR. Never before seen production of this magnitude.
- Full size replica Japanese Zero aircraft hangs from the ceiling.
- Window of 1942 and aerial view of the Bombing of Darwin Harbour that comes to life.
