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YWLGWGE

Walgett Airport

Australia

Elevation
439 ft
Runways
2
Longest
5,335 ft
Position
-30.033, 148.126
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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

05231836N500 m
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
YLRDYWLGN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • YLRD36
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

  • 9,118 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.5 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 104th

    Longest in Australia

    of 187 airfields in the country

  • 3671st

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 88th

    Highest in Australia

    439 ft above sea level

  • 36 nm

    Nearest airfield

    YLRD, bearing 347

  • Asphalt, Grass

    Surface

    Every runway lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
05/235,335 ft98 ftAsphaltYes
18/363,783 ft98 ftGrassYes

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 YWLG
  • YWLG to YLRD, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at YWLG 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

  • YLRDLightning Ridge Airport36 nm
  • YCNMCoonamble Airport58 nm
  • YBRWBrewarrina Airport68 nm
  • YDBIDirranbandi Airport87 nm
  • YNBRNarrabri Airport90 nm
  • YMORMoree Airport95 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

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