ELC

Elcho Island Airport

ICAO YELD12.0194°S 135.5710°E31 m / 101 ftMedium airport
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Elcho Island Airport (IATA: ELC, ICAO: YELD) is a medium airport in Elcho Island, Northern Territory, Australia. It has one runway, 1,440 m (4,724 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
10/28099° / 279° · LIT
LENGTH1,440 m4,724 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAirnorth 2Mission Aviation Fellowship 1Fly Tiwi 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers8K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,784of 3,974 · #161 Oceania · #99 AULongest runway1,440 m4,724 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,566of 29,823 · =465 Oceania · =359 AUElevation31 m101 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,753of 43,341 · =1,538 Oceania · =956 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
CTAFCTAF127.150
FSSBRISBANE CNTR123.400