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YBCSCNSMajor airport

Cairns International Airport

Cairns, Australia

Elevation
10 ft
Runways
1
Longest
10,489 ft
Position
-16.879, 145.749
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

1533N1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YMBAYBCSN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YMBA22
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 1 other airfield in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 10,489 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.7 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 8th

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 780th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 183rd

    Highest in Australia

    10 ft above sea level

  • 22 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YMBA, bearing 238

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
15/3310,489 ft148 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

  • ATISATIS113.000
  • CLDCLNC DEL121.700
  • GNDGND121.700
  • TWRTWR124.900
  • A/DAPP/DEP118.400

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of YBCS
  • YBCS to YMBA, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YBCS yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • YMBAMareeba Airport22 nm
  • YCKNCooktown Airport92 nm
  • YBTLTownsville Airport / RAAF Base Townsville154 nm
  • YCOECoen Airport242 nm
  • YKOWKowanyama Airport245 nm
  • YBPNProserpine Whitsunday Coast Airport269 nm

Elsewhere

  • Airport website
  • Wikipedia
  • Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.