RFDS Alice Springs Tourist Facility

Visit the RFDS Alice Springs Tourist Facility, the original Royal Flying Doctor Service base in Alice Springs, which began operations in 1939, and discover the story of the service that brings medical care to the Australian Outback. Watch a life-size hologram of RFDS founder Reverend John Flynn as he shares the history of the Flying Doctor, then experience what it is like to be an RFDS patient through a virtual reality flight simulation. Explore the museum's wide range of historic radios, including a Traeger pedal radio, and learn how people in remote areas communicated before telephones. See the decommissioned radio rooms and the original operations and communication centre, a large display of historic medical equipment once used on RFDS flights, and model aeroplanes that trace the RFDS fleet through each decade. Step inside a life-size replica of an RFDS aircraft, meet Alf Traeger and Nurse Kathy through interactive displays, and learn about the pilots, engineers, doctors and nurses of the RFDS and the patients they care for every day across South Australia and the Northern Territory.