New Sydney airport named after Nancy-Bird Walton
Pioneering pilot Nancy-Bird Walton is an "absolutely inspiring choice" as the name for western Sydney's new airport, according to Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
"Nancy-Bird Walton was a pioneer not just for women but for anybody," Ms Berejiklian said at the site of the airport in Badgerys Creek on Monday."She helped set up the flying doctors, she did things which nobody else did, male or female." Western Sydney International, to be also known as the Nancy-Bird Walton Airport, is due to open in 2026.
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