LGH

Leigh Creek Airport

ICAO YLEC30.5983°S 138.4260°E261 m / 856 ftMedium airport
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Leigh Creek Airport (IATA: LGH, ICAO: YLEC) is a medium airport in South Australia, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,710 m (5,610 ft). It is operated by Outback Communities Authority.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N
11/29121° / 301° · LIT
LENGTH1,710 m5,610 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
02/20030° / 210°
LENGTH1,219 m3,999 ftWIDTH18 m59 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LGH. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Leigh Creek Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway1,710 m5,610 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,188of 29,823 · #219 Oceania · #149 AUElevation261 m856 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=20,290of 43,341 · =667 Oceania · =349 AURunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =62 Oceania · =33 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

3 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR121.200
UNICLEIGH CREEK UNICOM126.700