MBW
Melbourne Moorabbin Airport
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 · 1949–1949DEC 1949
OpenedMelbourne Moorabbin Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap17L/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
2011–202210K
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Routes
1 destinations · 1 countryStraight 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 · countryScale: 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 channelsATISATIS120.900
CTAFWhen TWR not operating118.100
FIAMelb CNTR135.700
AWISA/hours120.900
TWREast118.100
SMC134.250
TWRWest123.000
FuelWorld Fuel121.650