Jandakot Airport is a general aviation (GA) airport in Jandakot, Western Australia that opened in 1963, about south-southwest of Perth Airport.

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.

In 1990, a second parallel runway opened. In 1997, a lease was sold by the Federal Airports Corporation to a consortium of local property developers.

Jandakot Airport is the busiest general aviation airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements. The airport recorded 208,778 aircraft movements in the year ending 30 June 2018, making it the sixth-busiest civilian airport in Australia in that period as measured by aircraft movements. The airport reported 275,506 aircraft movements in the fiscal year 2011, making it the busiest civilian airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements in that financial year. Jandakot Airport has a theoretical operating capacity of 526,000 aircraft movements per annum, which could be reached "within the 20-year planning horizon of" the 2014 Jandakot Airport Master Plan. The proposal's success depends on the successful negotiation of a land swap arrangement with State and Federal governments. The Jandakot Airport Chamber of Commerce and many users of Jandakot Airport were opposed to the relocation, as were the residents of the proposed site but not the residents at its current site.

Minister for Transport Mark Vaile in December 2006 advised the leaseholders of Jandakot Airport that the Federal Government had effectively stopped any plans for the relocation of the airport for the foreseeable future. Under the provisions of the Airports Act 1996 and the lease granted to Jandakot Airport Holdings, the leaseholders are to give priority to running the airport as an airport.

Jandakot City

In 2006, Ascot Capital announced plans to develop of land around the airport, approved for non-aviation related development by the federal government. The project would provide up to of leasable space. Harvey Norman

Accidents and incidents

On 26 April 2024, VH-POR, a De Havilland Chipmunk crashed into sand paddocks surrounding the runway. The sole occupant, a 73-year old man, died of his injuries in hospital on 29 April.

Flight-specific information

thumb|Jandakot Runways 24L and 24R

This airport has three runways:

  • 06L/24R,
  • 06R/24L,
  • 12/30,
  • Latitude: 32°05'51"S (−32.096667)
  • Longitude: 115°52'52"E (115.881667)
  • Elevation:
  • Time Zone: UTC+8

Notes

References

  • Official website