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YSWSWSIMajor airport

Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport

Sydney, Australia

Elevation
262 ft
Runways
1
Longest
12,139 ft
Position
-33.883, 150.713
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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

0523N1 km
1 runway. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YSCNYSBKYSRIYSHLYSWSN
5 airfields in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YSCN9
  • YSBK14
  • YSRI17
  • YSSY23
  • YSHL41
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 5 other airfields in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 12,139 ft

    Runway, all told

    2.0 nm of pavement across 1 runway

  • 2nd

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 244th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 104th

    Highest in Australia

    262 ft above sea level

  • 9 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YSCN, bearing 188

  • Asphalt

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
05/2312,139 ft1,562 ftAsphaltYes

Frequencies

No frequencies recorded for this airfield. Check the airfield briefing before you fly it.

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 YSWS
  • YSWS to YSCN, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YSWS 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

  • YSCNCamden Airport9 nm
  • YSBKSydney Bankstown Airport14 nm
  • YSRIRAAF Base Richmond17 nm
  • YSSYSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport23 nm
  • YSHLShellharbour Airport41 nm
  • YBTHBathurst Airport60 nm

Elsewhere

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