BWB

Barrow Island Airport

ICAO YBWX20.8644°S 115.4061°E8 m / 26 ftSmall airport
On the map

Barrow Island Airport (IATA: BWB, ICAO: YBWX) is a small airport in Western Australia, Australia. It has one runway, 1,900 m (6,234 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Bristow Helicopters.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
03/21027° / 207° · LIT
LENGTH1,900 m6,234 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
500 km1,000 km250 mi500 mi750 miPER · Perth International Airport · 1,233 km / 766 miPERBWB

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BWB. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Barrow Island Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,900 m6,234 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,282of 29,823 · =152 Oceania · =97 AUElevation8 m26 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,726of 43,341 · =1,943 Oceania · =1,161 AURunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =468 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
CTAFCTAF120.100
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR122.400