Jandakot Airport

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Jandakot Airport

IATA: JAD - ICAO: YPJT
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Jandakot Airport Holdings
Serves		Perth, Western Australia
Elevation AMSL		99 ft (30 m)
Coordinates		32°05′48″S 115°52′54″E / -32.09667, 115.88167
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06R/24L	3,773	1,150	Asphalt
06L/24R	4,567	1,392	Asphalt
12/30	3,248	990	Asphalt

Jandakot Airport (IATA: JAD, ICAO: YPJT) is an Australian general aviation airport located in Jandakot, Perth, Western Australia. Jandakot airport opened in 1963. From 1 July 1998, Jandakot Airport Holdings purchased a 50-year lease with a 49-year option to operate and maintain the airport including its conservation areas.

Originally built on unproductive farm lands, it is now among residential suburbs in the south of the Perth metropolitan area, within the City of Cockburn, and just south of Leeming and west of Canning Vale.

The airport recorded 407,148 aircraft movements in 2006 and 381,724 in 2007,^[1] making it the busiest airport in Australia and the 29th busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements in 2007. It has a reported capacity of 514,650 per annum.^[2]

Its post code is 6164.

1 Notable tenants
2 Natural environment
3 Relocation plans
4 Jandakot City
5 Flight-specific information
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Notable tenants

The airport provides a base for essential service organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Department of Environment and Conservation Forest and Bushfire Patrol and the WA Police Air Support. Jandakot is also an important training base for international airline pilots, with Singapore Airlines and China Southern Airlines operating flying colleges and student accommodation facilities at the Airport. China Southern West Australian Flying College also operates from Merredin Aerodrome.

Jandakot is also home to the Royal Aero Club of Western Australia.

There are also a number of charter operators who provide flights for the 'fly in fly out' staff of remote mining companies.

On the main road opposite the tower there is a memorial to Robin Miller, the "Sugarbird Lady", who as a nurse and later RFDS pilot brought vaccinations to remote Western Australian communities.

[edit] Natural environment

Jandakot Airport covers 6.22 km² with 4 km² of Banksia woodlands; this includes 2.8 km² of conservation reserve. Within the airport boundaries 290 native flora species have been identified including the endangered Grand Spider Orchid (caladenia hueglii). Over 100 fauna species have also been identified. The Southern Brown Bandicoot and kangaroos can be seen feeding on the maintained areas of grassland around sunset most nights. Two sites of Aboriginal heritage land have been identified with the airport; both of these are included in the conservation reserve. These sites contain scattered small artifacts.

[edit] Relocation plans

On 15 June 2006, Jandakot Airport Holdings, after being bought out by property developer Ascot Capital Limited, announced a proposal to relocate the airport's operations to the southern outskirts of Perth, possibly to a site in the Shire of Murray.^[3] The proposal's success depends on the successful negotiation of a land swap arrangement with State and Commonwealth governments. The Jandakot Airport Chamber of Commerce and many users of Jandakot Airport are opposed to the relocation as are the residents of the proposed site.^[4]

A letter from Mark Vaile, the former Federal Minister for Transport, to the leaseholders of Jandakot Airport has effectively stopped any plans for the relocation of the airport for the foreseeable future. In the meantime Jandakot Airport Holdings are proceeding with the construction of a fourth runway at the airport.

[edit] Jandakot City

In 2006 Ascot Capital Limited announced plans to develop 149 hectares of land around the airport, approved for non-aviation related development by the federal government. The project would provide up to 500,000 square metres of leasable space.^[5] Harvey Norman have announced that they will take up 20 hectares (with 10,000 square metres of floorspace) in the first stage of Jandakot City.^[6]

[edit] Flight-specific information

This airport has three runways, 06L/24R (30 m wide), 06R/24L (18 m wide) and 12/30 (30 m wide).

Robin Miller Memorial

Latitude: 32°05'48"S (-32.096667)
Longitude: 115°52'54"E (115.881667)
Elevation: 99 ft (30 m)
Timezone: UTC+8

Frequencies in use:

Tower: 118.1
Circuits: 119.4
Ground: 124.3
ATIS: 120.9, 281
CTAF: 118.1
PAL/PAPI: 123.9
NDB: 281
ACD: 132.95
Fuel: 129.9 (Air BP), 121.8 (Shell Aviation)