Learmonth Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Civil aviation | ||||||||||
Owner | Department of Defence | ||||||||||
Operator | Shire of Exmouth | ||||||||||
Serves | Exmouth, Western Australia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 19 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 22°14′09″S114°05′19″E / 22.23583°S 114.08861°E | ||||||||||
Website | Learmonth Airport | ||||||||||
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Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart [1] Passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure & Transport Research Economics [2] |
Learmonth Airport( IATA : LEA, ICAO : YPLM) is an airport, co-located on the site of RAAF Base Learmonth, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base. The airport is located near the town of Exmouth on the north-west coast of Western Australia.
Established in the 1940s as an airfield, the current airport is operated by the Shire of Exmouth under a lease from the Department of Defence and occupies an area of 23.9 hectares (59 acres) on the RAAF Base Learmonth site. The terminal opened on 3 December 1999. [3] [4]
On 7 October 2008, Qantas Flight 72 made an emergency landing at RAAF Learmonth. On 1 June 2012, an AirAsia X flight to Perth made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport for refuelling. [5] Learmonth is designated an emergency alternative airport in the case of fog or bad weather affecting Perth Airport. [6]
In October 2023, CPB Contractors was awarded a contract to upgrade the airport. [7] [8]
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QantasLink | Perth |
Learmonth Airport was ranked 49th in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in 2012/13. [2]
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