KGC

Kingscote Airport

ICAO YKSC35.7139°S 137.5210°E7 m / 24 ftMedium airport
On the map

Kingscote Airport (IATA: KGC, ICAO: YKSC) is a medium airport in South Australia, Australia. It has 3 runways; the longest is 1,402 m (4,600 ft). It is operated by Kangaroo Island Council. In 2022 it handled 15 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
01/19022° / 202° · LIT
LENGTH1,402 m4,600 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
15/33157° / 337° · LIT
LENGTH1,164 m3,819 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEGravel
06/24067° / 247° · LIT
LENGTH1,134 m3,720 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2011–2022
46K
40K
38K
37K
35K
38K
38K
45K
43K
13K
13K
15K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KGC. From the Wikipedia article “Kingscote Airport” (revision of 20 Aug 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#2,535of 3,974 · #134 Oceania · #84 AULongest runway1,402 m4,600 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,730of 29,823 · =490 Oceania · =382 AUElevation7 m24 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,916of 43,341 · =1,961 Oceania · =1,169 AURunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =22 Oceania · =9 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
CTAFCTAF126.000
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR123.050