"The Oaks" airfield (YOAS) (Greater Western Sydney)

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The Oaks Airfield is an unlicensed private airfield located in The Oaks, New South Wales in the Wollondilly Shire, west of Sydney Australia.

Was a major airfield in the Second World War. Cut in half by the road to Warragamba Dam, remnants of earth works and runway can be seen on the north side of the road where planes were housed (revetments?) to make them safer from bombing raids. The aircraft primarily patrolled the coast for submarines. The airfield is today primarily used for ultralite aircraft.

The town of The Oaks is famous for contaminating Sydney's water supply with giardia and other internal parasites but this has now been rectified by placing the town on a reticulated sewerage system. This was because Sydney Water forced the town onto a reticulated water system without providing any means of removing the waste generated. Monkey Creek which is crossed just before reaching the airfield then took the untreated effluent straight down to the dam wall for Sydney's main water supply.

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