Kubin Island Airport

ICAO YKUB10.2265°S 142.2196°E5 m / 15 ftSmall airport

Kubin Island Airport (IATA: KUG, ICAO: YKUB) is a small airport in Kubin Island, Queensland, Australia. It has one runway, 1,000 m (3,281 ft) long, paved. It is operated by Torres Strait Regional Authority. In 2021 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

11/29113° / 293°

LENGTH1,000 m3,281 ftWIDTH18 m60 ftSURFACEPaved

Passengers per year

2009–2021

091011121314151617181921

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

BDDBadu Island AirportAustralia · Hinterland Aviation, SmartLynx Australia10 km6.2 mi UBBMabuiag Island AirportAustralia · Hinterland Aviation, SmartLynx Australia31 km19 mi HIDHorn Island AirportAustralia · Hinterland Aviation, SmartLynx Australia41 km25 mi

Most destinationsHinterland Aviation 3SmartLynx Australia 3

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KUG. From the Wikipedia article “Kubin Airport” (revision of 26 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers8K (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,798of 3,974 · #163 Oceania · #101 AU Longest runway1,000 m3,281 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=13,629of 29,823 · =1,151 Oceania · =948 AU Elevation5 m15 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,827of 43,341 · =2,061 Oceania · =1,203 AU Runways11 · 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

CTAFCTAF126.500

FSSBRISBANE CNTR120.300