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YLRDLHG

Lightning Ridge Airport

Australia

Elevation
540 ft
Runways
2
Longest
4,613 ft
Position
-29.453, 147.977
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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

10280422N500 m
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YWLGYLRDN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YWLG36
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

  • 7,018 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.2 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 151st

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 4099th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 76th

    Highest in Australia

    540 ft above sea level

  • 36 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YWLG, bearing 167

  • Asphalt, Gravel

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
10/284,613 ft60 ftAsphaltYes
04/222,405 ft98 ftGravelYes

Frequencies

  • FSSBRISBANE CNTR127.100

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 YLRD
  • YLRD to YWLG, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YLRD 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

  • YWLGWalgett Airport36 nm
  • YDBIDirranbandi Airport53 nm
  • YBRWBrewarrina Airport68 nm
  • YCNMCoonamble Airport94 nm
  • YMORMoree Airport98 nm
  • YNBRNarrabri Airport109 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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