The Oaks and WW2 History
The Oaks Airport is the last remaining WW2 Airport left in Sydney. It was built 1941/42 as a "dispersal" aerodrome, so in the event that Sydney, Bankstown or Camden were attacked bombed/shelled airccraft could fly to The Oaks and "hide".
As the Airport is the highest Airport in Sydney, and farthest distance from the GPO, I would assume that that gave it some strategic advantages.
Aircraft hides were constructed off the 5,000 foot, 150 foot wide bitumen runway that graced the Airport. These can be seen on the 1943 Survey map, under HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS on our website.