Darwin Airport is set to receive a pair of Explosive Trace Detection machines by the end of the year.
The $100,000 machines come as part of $200 million federal government initiative to beef up airport security that will fund a raft of new measure including full body scanners, multi-view X-ray machines and additional security dogs.
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The explosives detection machines are already in use across most major Australian airports.
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