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YPKSPKE

Parkes Airport

Parkes, Australia

Elevation
1,069 ft
Runways
2
Longest
5,525 ft
Position
-33.131, 148.239
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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

04221129N500 m
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YFBSYORGYCWRYPKSN
3 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YFBS21
  • YORG47
  • YCWR48
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 3 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 10,847 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.8 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 87th

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 3582nd

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 33rd

    Highest in Australia

    1,069 ft above sea level

  • 21 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YFBS, bearing 228

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    1 of 2 lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
04/225,525 ft148 ftAsphaltYes
11/295,322 ft98 ftAsphaltNo

Frequencies

  • AWISNot named128.550
  • FSSMELBOURNE CNTR135.250
  • PALNot named119.600

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 YPKS
  • YPKS to YFBS, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YPKS 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

  • YFBSForbes Airport21 nm
  • YORGOrange Airport47 nm
  • YCWRCowra Airport48 nm
  • YSDUDubbo City Regional Airport57 nm
  • YYNGYoung Airport67 nm
  • YWWLWest Wyalong Airport71 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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