Tyabb Airport

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Tyabb Airport
Summary
Airport typePrivate
OperatorPeninsula Aero Club
Location Tyabb, Victoria
Elevation  AMSL 88 ft / 27 m
Coordinates 38°16′0″S145°10′46″E / 38.26667°S 145.17944°E / -38.26667; 145.17944
Map
Australia Victoria location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
YTYA
Location in Victoria
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
17/351,0003,281Asphalt
08/266001,969Grass
Helipads
NumberLengthSurface
mft
H1826Asphalt
H2826Asphalt
Sources: AIP [1]

Tyabb Airport( ICAO : YTYA), also called Tyabb Airfield, [2] is a small regional airport located just west of the town of Tyabb, Victoria on the Mornington Peninsula.

Contents

Peninsula Aero Club use various different aircraft to train their student pilots, Aeroprakt A22-LS Foxbat, Cessna 152, Cessna 172, Beechcraft Sierra, American Champion Decathlon, Beechcraft Travel Air, and Partenavia P68B.

The airport is the site of the Tyabb Air Show, which is held every two years. [3]

As of 2024, it was also the home base of a number of World War II-era warbirds, including an ex-USAAF Curtis P-40 Kittyhawk and an Australian-built ex-RAAF CA-18 Mustang. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ YTYA – Tyabb  (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia , effective 4 September 2025
  2. ↑ "Tyabb Airfield Community Reference Group". Shire of Mornington Peninsula. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Bull, Sandra (4 March 2014). "Eyes on skies at Tyabb Air Show". Peninsula Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  4. ↑ McGrath, Gavin (29 September 2024). "Historic World War II aircraft hidden in plain sight at regional airfields". ABC News . Retrieved 30 September 2024.


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