NQAC Scenic Flights Atherton Tablelands

NQAC Scenic Flights Atherton Tablelands Scenic Flights Cairns is operated by North Queensland Aero Club Let us take you on an unforgettable journey over one of the seven wonders of the world.

The Great Barrier Reef is a truly breathtaking part of the universe and we'd love nothing more than to share our back yard with you, contact us today

The Daintree is spectacular from the ground. From the air, it's complete — you finally read the whole landscape at once:...
11/09/2026

The Daintree is spectacular from the ground. From the air, it's complete — you finally read the whole landscape at once: rainforest, river mouths, mangrove, and reef as a single connected system. That's the perspective a scenic flight gives you. Contact NQAC to make it yours. Here's a recent look from above 👇

Why fly?I have lived in Far North Queensland most of my life and enjoyed an outdoors adventure lifestyle. But in recent ...
04/09/2026

Why fly?

I have lived in Far North Queensland most of my life and enjoyed an outdoors adventure lifestyle. But in recent years, flying over the landscape has opened my eyes and triggered a deeper curiosity about what formed and shaped our landscapes. The aerial view lets me access normally inaccessible landscapes, offers a new perspective on landscapes I thought I already knew, reveals patterns and abstraction the eye loves, invites interpretation and understanding, delivers a sense of scale, and instils a feeling of humility — all at once, in a single journey.

Does this experience appeal to you?

Kevin
Member, NQAC

☁️ 30 or 60 minutes. Early departure. The Tablelands as it was built.
📍 Departs Mareeba | North Queensland Aero Club
🔗 Bookings 40922043 or www.nqac.com.au/scenics

65 eruptive centres. 54 locations. One volcanic province — and you're flying straight through the middle of it.The Ather...
27/08/2026

65 eruptive centres. 54 locations. One volcanic province — and you're flying straight through the middle of it.

The Atherton Tablelands didn't just grow this green. It erupted its way here.

At first light — before the day warms and the cloud builds — we lift off from Mareeba into the quietest air there is. Mist still pooling in the gullies. Long gold light raking across the paddocks. And below you, a landscape that only makes sense from above.

Scoria cones lined up like stepping stones. Red volcanic soil bleeding into green cane. Ancient lava shields you'd never pick as volcanoes from the road.

Then Mt Quincan.

From the ground, it's a hill behind a fence. From the air, it's a perfect crater — a lake caught in the throat of an old volcano, mist lifting off the water in the morning cool. You cannot see this from anywhere but up here.

Spectacular from the ground. Complete from the air.

☁️ 30 or 60 minutes. Early departure. The Tablelands as it was built.

📍 Departs Mareeba | North Queensland Aero Club
🔗 Bookings 40922043 or www.nqac.com.au/scenics


Savannah in the Round is coming to Mareeba, October 8–11 — and if you've got friends bunking in for the weekend, here's ...
21/08/2026

Savannah in the Round is coming to Mareeba, October 8–11 — and if you've got friends bunking in for the weekend, here's an idea: take them up before the music starts (or afterwards). Thirty minutes over the Tablelands, sixty over Mt Mulligan, or ninety out to the reef — pick the one that suits your crew. Book early, festival week fills fast.

You've driven past this country a hundred times.From 1,000 feet, you won't recognise it.Grain silos become sundials. Pad...
13/08/2026

You've driven past this country a hundred times.

From 1,000 feet, you won't recognise it.

Grain silos become sundials. Paddocks split clean between red soil and green crop, like a line drawn with a ruler. An orchard turns into a fingerprint — row after row after row, stretching to the horizon.

This is the Tablelands you already know, seen the way few get to see it. Ten minutes out of Mareeba and the landscape you drive through every day rearranges itself into something else entirely.

That's the whole idea behind our Atherton Tablelands Scenic flight: not a new place, just a new way of looking at this one.

30 and 60 minute scenic, Mareeba Aerodrome.

Do you ever wonder what this country really looks like — beyond what you can see from the road or the beach?Most people ...
06/08/2026

Do you ever wonder what this country really looks like — beyond what you can see from the road or the beach?

Most people leave without ever knowing. The landscape holds its secrets until you rise above it.

Far North Queensland Aero Club scenic flights open the view that changes everything.

From above, the pieces connect — the geology, the coastline, the ancient patterns written across the land.

So you carry home something most visitors never find — the full picture.

60-minute scenics. Flying today from Mareeba.
Book: nqac.com.au/scenics

75 men didn't come home. The chimney stack is still standing.Mount Mulligan. An 18-kilometre wall of sandstone west of M...
31/07/2026

75 men didn't come home. The chimney stack is still standing.

Mount Mulligan. An 18-kilometre wall of sandstone west of Mareeba. From the air, the scale finally makes sense — sheer cliffs dropping hundreds of metres, running kilometre after kilometre in a single unbroken line.

Look to the base, though, and you'll find something much quieter. A single brick chimney, standing alone in the grass.

On 19 September 1921, an explosion tore through the coal mine here. Seventy-five men killed. The worst mining disaster in Queensland's history — and one most Far North locals have never heard of.

There was a whole town here once. A school, a hospital, streets. It's gone. The chimney is nearly all that's left.

You can drive out to it. But from the air, you get the bigger picture — the mountain, the mine, the whole silent story laid out below you in one view.

Sandstone that took a hundred million years to form. Brick laid by hand a century ago. Side by side.

60-minute Mt Mulligan Scenic. Flying today from Mareeba.
Book: nqac.com.au/scenics

Most people have never seen this.The cliff face of Bones K**b — up close, from the air. What looks like a single hill fr...
22/07/2026

Most people have never seen this.

The cliff face of Bones K**b — up close, from the air. What looks like a single hill from the Tolga road is actually two volcanoes in one: a broad shield volcano that spread lava flows north toward Mareeba nearly 1.8 million years ago, and perched on its flank, a younger scoria cone that erupted 130,000 years later.

This is the scoria cone's exposed face. The reddish-brown layering is iron, oxidised as molten cinders tumbled through the air during eruption.

From the road, Bones K**b is just a quiet hill above the macadamia orchards. From the air it reads as what it is: one of the most geologically unusual sites on the Atherton Tablelands.

One of many 'stops' on the 30-minute Atherton Tablelands Scenic from Mareeba.

📍 Book at nqac.com.au/scenics

This is Mossman Gorge at eye level.Cold water. Ancient granite. Rainforest so dense it swallows sound.Beautiful. But inc...
16/07/2026

This is Mossman Gorge at eye level.

Cold water. Ancient granite. Rainforest so dense it swallows sound.
Beautiful. But incomplete.

From the air, the picture finishes itself. The escarpment wall. The gorge it guards. The Mossman River cutting its path to the coast — a straight silver line through two hundred million years of rainforest.

Same place. Whole different story.

Can be part of NQAC Reef Scenic from Mareeba. The gorge is just the beginning.

📍 Mareeba Aerodrome
🔗 nqac.com.au/scenics

From the saddle to the sky.If you're in Mareeba for the Mareeba Rodeo, you're already in the right country. The open cou...
08/07/2026

From the saddle to the sky.

If you're in Mareeba for the Mareeba Rodeo, you're already in the right country. The open country. The dry heat. The sense that this landscape runs deeper than anything you can see from the ground.

Ngarrabullgan Mt Mulligan will show you just how deep.

An ancient sandstone plateau rising out of the outback north of Mareeba — sheer walls, silence, millions of years of story. Our 60-minute scenic flight takes you straight to it.

Two ways to experience outback North Queensland this week. One involves horses. The other involves a very different view.

Book at nqac.com.au/scenics
📍 Mareeba Aerodrome

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North Queensland Aero Club, Vicary Road
Mareeba, QLD
4880

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Monday 6am - 5pm
Tuesday 6am - 5pm
Wednesday 6am - 5pm
Thursday 6am - 5pm
Friday 6am - 5pm
Saturday 6am - 5pm
Sunday 6am - 5pm

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