KWM

Kowanyama Airport

ICAO YKOW15.4854°S 141.7526°E11 m / 35 ftMedium airport
On the map

Kowanyama Airport (IATA: KWM, ICAO: YKOW) is a medium airport in Kowanyama, Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,380 m (4,528 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aboriginal Shire of Kowanyama. In 2022 it handled 12 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
12/30120° / 300° · LIT
LENGTH1,380 m4,528 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers12K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,630of 3,974 · #140 Oceania · #88 AULongest runway1,380 m4,528 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=8,036of 29,823 · #546 Oceania · #428 AUElevation11 m35 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,064of 43,341 · =1,861 Oceania · =1,124 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 CNTR118.200