Latest News
The latest official news from the race organisers
2025 Route Planning
Planning for OAR2025 will start soon – please help us start that by telling us where you’d like to go in 2025, by clicking on the link below - thanks in advance for your great suggestions. After that we’ll look at options to ”join the dots” and come up with the route for OAR2025...
Raffle winner
The winning ticket was 493, name John Rafferty from Sawtell in NSW.
The Lottery Office Outback Air Race 2022 is cleared for take off!
The race committee has met and taken the decision, based on the best available health advice, to proceed with the Outback Air Race 2022 as planned.
We are cleared for take-off!
Principal Sponsor Onboard for Outback Air Race 2022
The Outback Air Race is excited to announce The Lottery Office as their major sponsor for the 2022 event. The Lottery Office is an Australian owned lottery provider that donates a portion of profits to Australian charities and has allocated over $1,000,000 to charitable causes over the last three...
Outback Air Race 2021 deferred to 2022
Due to ongoing uncertainty around COVID matters including state border closures and other travel restrictions, the race committee have decided to defer the event one full year. OAR2022 will follow the same route as planned for the 2021 event. Teams registered for the 2021 event can choose between...
Registrations are now closed
Our event is now fully subscribed and registrations are now closed.
Race launch and presentation
The Outback Air Race 2021 campaign is now officially launched. Via a Teams online event attended by about 50 people from all over Australia, potential participants watched and listened to an informative presentation from Race Treasurer Peter Williams, and Race Manager Stuart Payne, followed...
The Outback Air Race 2021 route and dates have (almost) been announced!
We have a very exciting update for the Outback Air Race 2021! The planning for the 2021 Outback Air Race is well advanced. The Race will commences in Darwin, NT on Monday, 30th August 2021 and finishes in Coffs Harbour, NSW, on Sunday.12th September...