In the early 80's a Philippine Air Force Nomad crew landed at the old Katherine airstrip near the hospital thinking they were at Tindal. They did particularly well to miss a couple of grazing horses and the single-strand power line that ran across the strip that looked more like a disused country track than an airstrip.
Ambulances rushed from the hospital thinking it was a forced landing while over at Tindal a couple of us were telling Flight Service that he wasn't there.
Having realised their error the boys in the Nomad blasted off (can you do that in a Nomad?) over to Tindal, a few more miles away.
I reckon they were probably thinking that the Philippine Air Force was not so bad if this is the best Australia can do for an Air Force base…..until they realised their error…..