Essendon Fields is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km (6.8 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area.

The suburb was formally gazetted on 14 August 2008 under the Geographic Place Names Act.

[2] On 21 February 2017 just before 9 am, a Beechcraft Super King Air on a passenger charter flight bound for King Island, Tasmania crashed into the nearby DFO Essendon shopping centre shortly after takeoff from nearby Essendon Airport.

The incident was the worst aviation accident in Victoria for 30 years.

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