Longreach Airport — Longreach, Australia

Longreach Airport, coded LRE, serves Longreach in the remote Central West region of outback Queensland, Australia, a town celebrated as the birthplace of Qantas, which was founded there in 1920. LRE reflects this heritage as home to the Qantas Founders Museum, featuring retired aircraft on static display near the airfield. The airport provides essential scheduled flights connecting the isolated town to Brisbane and other Queensland centers, since road distances across the outback are vast. Beyond tourism tied to its aviation history and nearby dinosaur fossil attractions, LRE supports agricultural aviation and Royal Flying Doctor Service operations vital to the sparsely populated surrounding grazing country.