BHQ

Broken Hill Airport

ICAO YBHI32.0014°S 141.4720°E292 m / 958 ftMedium airport
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Broken Hill Airport (IATA: BHQ, ICAO: YBHI) is a medium airport in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,515 m (8,251 ft). In 2022 it handled 54 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Broken Hill Airport Terminal
05/23056° / 236° · LIT
LENGTH2,515 m8,251 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32143° / 323° · LIT
LENGTH1,000 m3,281 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEDirt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
63K
67K
61K
57K
55K
53K
62K
70K
61K
21K
21K
54K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsRex Airlines 3QantasLink 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BHQ. From the Wikipedia article “Broken Hill Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers54K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,063of 3,974 · #98 Oceania · #60 AULongest runway2,515 m8,251 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,256of 29,823 · #46 Oceania · #25 AUElevation292 m958 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=18,416of 43,341 · #608 Oceania · #297 AURunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · =33 AU
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR122.600