Moorabbin Harry Hawker Airport Harry Hawker Airport Melbourne–Moorabbin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Goodman Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Moorabbin Airport Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Moorabbin Airport, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 15 December 1949[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 55 ft / 17 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°58′33″S 145°06′08″E / 37.97583°S 145.10222°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart[3] Passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moorabbin (Harry Hawker) Airport (IATA: MBW, ICAO: YMMB) is a mostly general aviation airport for light aircraft located in between the southern Melbourne suburbs of Heatherton, Cheltenham, Dingley Village and Mentone. It also receives commercial airline service. The airport grounds are treated as their own suburb, and share the postcode 3194 with the neighbouring suburb of Mentone. With a total of 274,082 aircraft movements, Moorabbin Airport was the second busiest airport in Australia for the calendar year 2011.[5]
- ^ "A History of A History of Moorabbin Airport Moorabbin Airport Airport &Control Control Control Tower" (PDF). The Civil Aviation Historical Society & Airways Museum. February 1977. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ Fiscal year 1 July – 30 June
- ^ YMMB – Moorabbin (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024, Aeronautical Chart
- ^ "Airport Traffic Data 1985-86 to 2010-11". Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) (BITRE). May 2012. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012. Refers to "Regular Public Transport (RPT) operations only"
- ^ "Movements at Australian Airports" (PDF). Airservices Australia. 17 February 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012.