RFDS Alice Springs Tourist Facility General Entry-Concession

Visit the original Royal Flying Doctor Service Alice Springs working base that commenced in 1939.

Experience, through state-of-the-art innovation, the heroic tales of the birth and growth of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, including:

• One of only two life-size ‘human’ holograms in the Southern Hemisphere. Watch as RFDS Founder The Reverend John Flynn takes you through the founding and history of the RFDS.
• Experience a flight as an RFDS patient through immersive virtual reality.
• View our historic ‘OCC’ - the beating heart and communication lifeline of the Flying Doctor - as it was in 1939.
• Embark on a tour around the RFDS museum and experience the history of the RFDS in SA/NT.
• Take a tour through decommissioned radio rooms - the backbone of early outback communications and see historical medical supplies and instruments. 
• Walk through the museum and meet Alf Traeger and Nurse Kathy thru interactive technology.
• Step inside a replica RFDS aircraft.

Experience the heart of the RFDS, in the heart of the Australian Outback.