YOUR NEXT FUNCTION AT RFDS DARWIN TOURIST FACILITY
See, experience, learn and party at the RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility, Stokes Hill Wharf.
From cocktail events for up to 220 people to seated dinners of 110, the RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility provides a history lesson of two iconic territory stories through the wonder of technology.
Enjoy the heroic tales of the birth and growth of the RFDS and its pilots, engineers, doctors and nurses, and the experiences of its patients.
Also, relive the drama and destruction of the Bombing of Darwin Harbour that rocked Australia in 1942.
Guests have the opportunity to experience;
Award-winning virtual reality experience of the bombing of Darwin Harbour
Immersive stage shows with two life size holograms: RFDS Founder John Flynn and Rear Admiral Etheridge Grant, Commanding Officer of the USS William B Preston. Includes headset audio translation in Japanese, German, French and Simplified Chinese
A decommissioned RFDS Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, allowing visitors inside to experience a fully operational RFDS aeromedical aircraft
Four Interactive storytelling mini ghosts. Meet Alfred Traeger, Nurse Kathy, Prime Minister John Curtin and Japanese Pilot Hajime Toyoshima who answer selected questions from a touch panel
A Full size Japanese Zero replica
Immersive window of 1942 and aerial view of the Bombing of Darwin Harbour, showing the bombing and aircraft fire of the first raid
Replica of Camilla, the Flying Boat that escaped from Darwin Harbour and its story
Touchscreen Portals, allowing the visitor to learn about the day to day life
The Pedal Radio invented by Alfred Traeger, used by people of the Outback
Story boards that provide very informative reading and pictures of the history of the RFDS and the Bombing of Darwin.
> Audio/Video includes microphone, sound system and data inputs to 80” screen.
> The RFDS Darwin Tourist Facility is located on the iconic Stokes Hill Wharf, part of the Waterfront Precinct, and is only a five minute walk from the Darwin Convention Centre.
