Qantas Hangar, Longreach, Aviation heritage site in Longreach, Australia

The Qantas Hangar is an aviation museum in Longreach that documents the early history of commercial flight in this region. The building dates from 1922 and houses aircraft, engines, and historical objects that show how the aviation industry developed over time.

The hangar was completed in August 1922 by Stewarts and Lloyds for Qantas, which had won the Charleville–Cloncurry mail tender that February. The inaugural mail flight left in November 1922. DH50 aircraft were built here under de Havilland licence from 1926 until 1929, and Qantas moved its headquarters to Brisbane in June 1930.

The hangar tells the story of how aviation transformed regional life and connected remote communities. Through its collection, you can see how air travel became part of everyday life for people in inland Australia.

The hangar stands on the Landsborough Highway, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Longreach town centre, on the site of the 1922 aerodrome. It is now part of the Qantas Founders Museum, so allow time to walk between the hangar and the other museum buildings. The 1960s passenger terminal added at the north-east corner holds a waiting room and offices.

The hangar's gable-end signage has been repainted several times, in 1963, 1969 and 1972, and the Allom Lovell Marquis-Kyle Conservation Plan records that the positions of the gables were reversed during the 1963 alterations. Look up at the lettering on the ends of the building to see this repainted signage.