RAAF Base Glenbrook

RAAF Base Glenbrook is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base located in Glenbrook, in the Lower Blue Mountains, approximately west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.The base serves as home to Headquarters Air Command of the RAAF. There is no airfield although it has an heliport, or helicopter landing site (HLS), with most administrative services located on the nearby RAAF Base Richmond. Parts of the 28ha site are heritage-listed and comprise the Officers' Mess, once the former site of the Hotel.In 2009 the Minister for Defence, John Faulkner, announced that the base would be closed by 2015, and its command operations transfer to RAAF Base Amberley.