CTN

Cooktown Airport

ICAO YCKN15.4436°S 145.1832°E8 m / 26 ftMedium airport
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Cooktown Airport (IATA: CTN, ICAO: YCKN) is a medium airport in Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,627 m (5,338 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 15 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
11/29111° / 291° · LIT
LENGTH1,627 m5,338 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
9K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
50 km100 km150 km25 mi50 mi75 mi100 miCNS · Cairns International Airport · 171 km / 106 miCNSCTN

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers15K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,532of 3,974 · #133 Oceania · #83 AULongest runway1,627 m5,338 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#5,693of 29,823 · #275 Oceania · #195 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
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSBRISBANE CNTR134.650