Gliderboy, Merry Xmas to you too mate - Maroochy would also be a fine option - God knows why the Army didn't take it over Oakey when they had the choice. As for coming out of retirement, I'm as we speak working at a unit not a million miles from one of the ones being discussed in this very thread, who'd've thunk it eh!
DBTW, funny how things work out; as you may know, they were doing big runway works at Pt Cook in the late 80s to bring the PC9 there as the basic trainer (which is how come we got the fat tyres - to land on the parallel grass runways), with the ill-fated Wamira one of the other contenders. CT4s were to retire, Macchis were going to soldier on under the LOTEX program. A cunning plan, as Blackadder would say, but things sure didn't turn out as predicted. Maybe all training will be consolidated at Maroochy, stranger things have happened!