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YARAARY

Ararat Airport

Ararat, Australia

Elevation
1,008 ft
Runways
2
Longest
4,068 ft
Position
-37.310, 142.989
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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

12300422N250 m
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YSWLYHMLYARAN
2 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YSWL19
  • YHML48
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 2 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 6,233 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.0 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 173rd

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 4321st

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 36th

    Highest in Australia

    1,008 ft above sea level

  • 19 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YSWL, bearing 320

  • Asphalt, Grass

    Surface

    1 of 2 lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
12/304,068 ft60 ftAsphaltYes
04/222,165 ft98 ftGrassNo

Frequencies

  • FSSMELBOURNE CNTR126.800

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 YARA
  • YARA to YSWL, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YARA 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

  • YSWLStawell Airport19 nm
  • YHMLHamilton Airport48 nm
  • YHSMHorsham Airport55 nm
  • YWKBWarracknabeal Airport65 nm
  • YMAVMelbourne Avalon International Airport83 nm
  • YMMLMelbourne Airport91 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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