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The Royal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility

By Royal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility
9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
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Overview
  • Life size storey telling holographic cinema experience.
  • Virtual Reality experiences
  • Life size replica Japanese Zero aircraft
  • Window of 1942 and aerial view comes to life
  • A decommissioned RFDS Pilatus PC 12 aircraft

Activity location

  • Royal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility
    • 45 Stokes Hill Road
    • 0800, Darwin City, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Royal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility
    • 45 Stokes Hill Road
    • 0800, Darwin City, Northern Territory, Australia

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedThe facility experiences are self-guided, with a host. Headset audio translation
  • What's includedWhat's includedHeadset audio translation equipment for hologram films
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedThe retail section contains a wide selection of fantastic gift ideas and souvenirs.

Know before you book

  • The facility provides headset audio translation for both hologram cinema sessions in Japanese, German, French and Chinese. We have complete disability access and a number of seating options throughout the facility for all guests.
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

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 storey of the birth and growth of the RFDS.
  • Meet Alf Traeger and Nurse Kathy as interactive storey 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 storey telling holograms
  • Virtual Reality of the bombing of Darwin Harbour. This production is the pinnacle of a film 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.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESRoyal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility
    • 45 Stokes Hill Road
    • 0800, Darwin City, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLERoyal Flying Doctor Service Darwin Tourist Facility
    • 45 Stokes Hill Road
    • 0800, Darwin City, Northern Territory, Australia