MEB

Melbourne Essendon Airport

ICAO YMEN37.7281°S 144.9020°E86 m / 282 ftMedium airport
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Melbourne Essendon Airport (IATA: MEB, ICAO: YMEN) is a medium airport in Essendon Fields, Victoria, Australia. It opened in 1921. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,921 m (6,302 ft). In 2022 it handled 34 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1921–1921
1921
OpenedMelbourne Essendon Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Essendon Passenger Terminal
08/26088° / 268° · LIT
LENGTH1,921 m6,302 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
17/35177° / 357° · LIT
LENGTH1,314 m4,311 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
20K
19K
17K
15K
15K
19K
35K
40K
43K
16K
18K
34K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MEB. From the Wikipedia article “Essendon Fields Airport” (revision of 17 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers34K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,238of 3,974 · #111 Oceania · #68 AULongest runway1,921 m6,302 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,235of 29,823 · #148 Oceania · #94 AUElevation86 m282 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,730of 43,341 · =1,178 Oceania · =744 AUAgeOpened 19212026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=196of 15,079 · =4 Oceania · =4 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

5 channels
APPAPP132.000
ATISATIS119.800
DEPDEP118.900
GNDGND121.900
TWRTWR125.100