Qantas Founders Museum

The Qantas Founders Museum is a major aviation museum located at Longreach Airport in Longreach, Queensland. It commemorates the founding of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (Qantas) in 1920 in western Queensland. The museum houses a National Heritage-listed 1922 Qantas Hangar and a collection of historic aircraft including a Boeing 747, Boeing 707, Super Constellation and DC-3.

Visitors can expect a large indoor museum with interpretive displays on Qantas history, an airpark with full-size historic aircraft, and the original 1922 Qantas Hangar. The site is located adjacent to Longreach Airport on flat open outback terrain. Visitors explore exhibition halls, aircraft interiors on guided tours, outdoor aircraft displays, a theatre, gift shop and cafe. Guided tours including the Jet Tour and Wing Walk provide access to aircraft cabins and wings.

Commemorates the founding of Qantas at Winton in 1920 and establishment of its first operational base at Longreach in 1921. The 1922 Qantas Hangar at Longreach is National Heritage-listed as the airline's first hangar. Qantas is Australia's national airline and the world's second-oldest continuously operating airline. The museum preserves aircraft representing key eras of Qantas operations from the 1920s to the jet age.

Recognised as a nationally significant repository of Australian aviation heritage and outback identity. It interprets the role of aviation in connecting remote Queensland communities and the development of Australian civil aviation. The museum is a major cultural attraction for Longreach and central western Queensland.