Broken Hill Airport | |
Iata: | BHQ |
Icao: | YBHI |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | Council of the City of Broken Hill |
Location: | Broken Hill, New South Wales |
Elevation-F: | 959 |
Coordinates: | -32.0017°N 141.4717°W |
Pushpin Map: | New South Wales |
Pushpin Label: | YBHI |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New South Wales |
Website: | brokenhill.nsw.gov.au |
Metric-Rwy: | Y |
R1-Number: | 05/23 |
R1-Length-M: | 2515 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 14/32 |
R2-Length-M: | 1000 |
R2-Surface: | Grass |
Stat-Year: | 2010–11 |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 63,098 |
Stat2-Header: | Aircraft movements |
Stat2-Data: | 2,846 |
Footnotes: | Sources: AIP, Statistics from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics |
Broken Hill Airport is an airport located 2.5NM southeast of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
The airport currently is used as a base of operations for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia South-Eastern section thus making it a very important hub for this service.
It is also used extensively by the mining industry.
Broken Hill Airport was ranked 51st in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2009–2010.[1]