Australian Airports you have landed at or taken off from.

[Major]

After a boring Sunday afternoon I decided to list all the Australian airports that I have either landed at or taken off from. I was surprised at just how many there were. I'm also sure I have forgotten some.
48 for me and I'm sure there are AFFers with lots more


Tasmania

Hobart
Launceston
Devonport

Victoria

Essendon
Tullamarine
Puckapunyal (YPKL)

NSW

Cooma
Wagga
Tumut
Canberra
Moruya
Hay
Warren
Narromine
NAS Nowra
Sydney
Bankstown
Camden
Richmond
Dochra (YDOC)
Belmont (YLMQ)
Williamtown ( Newcastle )
Coffs Harbour
Evans Head
Casino
Lismore
Grafton

QLD

Gold Coast
Brisbane
Archerfield
Jacobs Well ( Norwell )
Caboolture
Toowoomba
Bundaberg
Mackay
Rockhampton
Hamilton Is.
South Molle Is.
Proserpine
Townsville
Cairns

S.A.

Adelaide

WA

Perth
Bunbury
Broome

N.T.

Darwin
Alice Springs
Gove

 

[AIRwin]

I also have:
Albury, NSW
Blackall, QLD
Canberra, ACT (not NSW?)
Charleville, QLD - on the final QFLink flight
Longreach, QLD
Maroochydore, QLD
Roma, QLD - on the final QFLink flight

 

[clifford]

And I have Merimbula (MIM) in NSW and Mt Gambier (MGB) in SA, both on QLK Dash-8's.

Interesting that neither have any security checking facilities, which in my experience has pros and cons...

 

[flyingfan]

Impressive list. I have:
MEL
SYD
CBR
HBA
BNE
ADL
PER
DRW
KTA
MQL
PPP
HTI
TSV
ASP
AYQ
BME
MKY
HVB
DBO
OOL
CNS
MEB

TSV and KTA are the only two airports I visited purely for status run reasons, although I turned them into ‘holidays’

 

[Scr77]

If we’re talking Australia, you really need to put remote places like Coco’s and Christmas Island on the list!

 

[AIRwin]

If we’re talking Australia, you really need to put remote places like Coco’s and Christmas Island on the list!

Or even Lord Howe and Norfolk Island?

 

[Townsend]

No where near as many as Major and Flying fan but I can add
Cowra
Bathurst
Barcaldine
to the list

 

[Kiwi_Flyer]

Not too many for me.

ADL *
ASP
AYQ
BCI
BDB
BEU
BNE *
BQL
BVI
CBR *
CFS
CNS *
DBO
DPO
DRW *
EMD
GLT
GOV
GTL
HBA
HID
HVB
ISA
LDH
LRE
LST
MEL *
MKY
MQL
MRZ
NAA
NLK *
OOL *
PER *
PQQ
RMA
ROK
SYD *
TSV
ULP
WEI
WNR
XCH *

43 with international flights involving 11 airports.

 

[antycbr]

SYD
BNK
CFS
LSY
LDH
GFF
TMW
PQQ
NTL
GFN
MIM
PKE

BNE
CNS
TSV
OOL
MCY
LRE
HVB

MEL

CBR

ADL

PER

ASP
DRW

LST
HBA
KNS
BWT

NLK

Working on remote islands so am proud of NLK/LDH/KNS.

Airports I’ve been to but haven’t landed or taken off from (often done as a drive by just to check them out) include OOM, KGC, MHU, DPO and KTR.

 

[antycbr]

Or even Lord Howe and Norfolk Island?

Done both. LDH is miles better.

 

[SYD]

NSW
SYD - obviously
NTL, TRO, PQQ, XRH

ACT
CBR, YJBY

QLD
BNE, OOL, CNS

VIC
MEL, YLVT, SXE

SA
ADL, YPED

NT
DRW, ASP

WA
PER, LEA, EXM, YPEA

TAS
HBA, LST

OST
NLK

 

[dylarr]

VIC
MEL - Melbourne
BXG - Bendigo

NSW
SYD - Sydney
LDH - Lord Howe Island
OAG - Orange
CFS - Coffs Harbour

ACT
CBR - Canberra

QLD
BNE - Brisbane
MCY - Sunshine Coast
OOL - Gold Coast
HVB - Hervey Bay
BDB - Bundaberg
LYT - Lady Elliot Island
HTI - Hamilton Island
CNS - Cairns

WA
PER - Perth

NT
DRW - Darwin
ASP - Alice Springs
AYQ - Ayers Rock / Uluru

TAS
HBA - Hobart
LST - Launceston

SA
ADL - Adelaide

External Territories
NLK - Norfolk Island

 

[Scarlett]

Well now, this is going to be interesting to try to work out. I have 36 domestic airports listed in my Openflights database (from my 195 total airports globally ) and then a couple more which would need to be added due circuits, training and other flights.

NSW. BNK, CFS, NTL, BEO, YLOC, SYD, XRH, CDU, WGA, BHQ, ABX
VIC. MEL, AVV, YMES
QLD. CNS, TSV, HTI, ROK, YWIS, MCY, BNE, YAMB, OOL, LRE
SA. ADL, YPED
TAS. HBA, LST, DPO, BWT, KNS
NT. DAR, GOV, KTR, YDWF, ASP, AYQ
WA. PER, YPEA, KGI
ACT. CBR

So 41 total. Need to get out more. Certainly want to get to those offshore islands already mentioned.

I reckon there will be a few private pilots, glider, helo and/or balloon pilots who will be over a hundred. They should be recognisable by inclusions such as arr/dep from places such as Kings Park (WA), a grid reference in the Hunter Valley or street address in northern Canberra!

 

[Archipelago]

Well now, this is going to be interesting to try to work out. I have 36 domestic airports listed in my Openflights database (from my 195 total airports globally ) and then a couple more which would need to be added due circuits, training and other flights.

I reckon there will be a few private pilots, glider, helo and/or balloon pilots who will be over a hundred. They should be recognisable by inclusions such as arr/dep from places such as Kings Park (WA), a grid reference in the Hunter Valley or street address in northern Canberra!

I'm also in the same boat as a private pilot in both fixed wing powered and glider aircraft. I'd be up in the low hundreds, so too numerous to list.

I've also had a lot of time in amphibious aircraft (ie floatplanes) so could list a few unusual "airports" such as the waters in the Montebello Islands, taking off and landing adjacent to a former nuclear test site

My most unusual 'airport' code though, when flying in helicopters - is ZZZZ. Anyone care to guess what that code represents?

 

[Scarlett]

ZZZZ - is an indicator used to tell enroute control you’re single pilot ops and you’ve gone to sleep. You have set an alarm for your predicted descent point, but if you overfly your destination, they should yell really loud over the comms!

Of course with Google these days, it really can be Satsuma (mandarin? airport) in Japan, or in your case, operating to a point that is not an aerodrome.

 

[Rangalad]

NRA - Narrandera (NSW)

 

[Major]

I knew I would miss one. Add Amberley to my list

 

[SYD]

I knew I would miss one. Add Amberley to my list

Ah, I skipped Laverton and East Sale…

 

[Colin 2905]

Not many for me, but I haven't seen COJ (Coonabarabran, NSW) mentioned yet. I did a few SYD <> COJ trips in the mid 1980's. From memory, they were 8 or 9-seater milk runs via DGE (Mudgee). On one trip I was the only passenger continuing on to COJ and the pilot invited me to sit up the front and don some headphones.

EDIT: I recall on one trip out of SYD to COJ via DGE that one woman couldn't believe that this was the right plane; it was way too small. What was she expecting? A 747?

 

[Quickstatus]

Much of above is vanilla:


QJD
WGE

(No points if you have to look it up)

ZZZZ = airfield where no ICAO code exists