Somersby Airfield Explained

Location:Somersby, NSW, Australia
Summer:AEDT
R1-Length-F:1876
Somersby Airfield
Iata:GOS
Icao:YSMB
Type:Private
Operator:Somersby Airfield Pty Ltd
Timezone:AEST
Utc:+10:00
Utcs:+11:00
Coordinates:-33.3678°N 151.2997°W
Pushpin Map:New South Wales
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in New South Wales
R1-Number:17/35
R1-Length-M:572
R1-Surface:Grass
Elevation-F:830[1]

Somersby Airfield (ICAO: YSMB, IATA: GOS) is an airfield located in Somersby, New South Wales, Australia. It is by road from the nearby city of Gosford. It is the sole aerodrome in Somersby, and does not serve scheduled commercial traffic.

The airfield is operated by Somersby Airfield Pty Ltd.[2]

Facilities

Somersby airport consists of a single runway and various hangars. It has a windsock as a runway feature and an aviation fuel supply. It also has a water supply and lavatories as passenger facilities.

Operations

Microlight Adventures, a company that provides recreational joy flights on microlight aircraft, is based at Somersby airfield.[3] Somersby occasionally serves general aviation traffic.

Radio procedures

Somersby has no control center and pilots communicate over a Common Traffic Advisory Frequency.

Notes and References

  1. Book: ERSA - Effective 21 May 2020 (AIRAC). Airservices Australia. 2020. 618.
  2. Web site: Airport: SOMERSBY. www.aviatecenter.com . 2016-11-01.
  3. Web site: Microlight Adventures Joyflights Central Coast NSW Australia. www.microlight.net.au. 2016-11-01.