MBW

Melbourne Moorabbin Airport

ICAO YMMB37.9778°S 145.0998°E15 m / 50 ftMedium airport
On the map

Melbourne Moorabbin Airport (IATA: MBW, ICAO: YMMB) is a medium airport in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened in Dec 1949. It has 5 runways; the longest is 1,335 m (4,380 ft). In 2022 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1949–1949
DEC 1949
OpenedMelbourne Moorabbin Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
17L/35R176° / 356° · LIT
LENGTH1,335 m4,380 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
17R/35L176° / 356°
LENGTH1,240 m4,069 ftWIDTH18 m60 ftSURFACEAsphalt
13L/31R142° / 322° · LIT
LENGTH1,149 m3,770 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
13R/31L142° / 322°
LENGTH1,060 m3,478 ftWIDTH18 m60 ftSURFACEAsphalt
04/22047° / 227° · LIT
LENGTH571 m1,873 ftWIDTH18 m60 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
10K
10K
10K
10K
9K
9K
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6K
7K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km50 mi100 mi150 miKNS · King Island Airport · 236 km / 147 miKNSMBW

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers7K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,817of 3,974 · #167 Oceania · #105 AULongest runway1,335 m4,380 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=8,473of 29,823 · #600 Oceania · #474 AUElevation15 m50 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,137of 43,341 · =1,766 Oceania · =1,076 AUAgeOpened 19492026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,461of 15,079 · =80 Oceania · #37 AURunways51 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=14of 29,943 · =3 Oceania · #1 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

8 channels
ATISATIS120.900
CTAFWhen TWR not operating118.100
FIAMelb CNTR135.700
AWISA/hours120.900
TWREast118.100
SMC134.250
TWRWest123.000
FuelWorld Fuel121.650