PKE

Parkes Airport

ICAO YPKS33.1314°S 148.2390°E326 m / 1,069 ftMedium airport
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Parkes Airport (IATA: PKE, ICAO: YPKS) is a medium airport in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,684 m (5,525 ft). It is operated by Parkes Shire. In 2022 it handled 23 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
04/22055° / 235° · LIT
LENGTH1,684 m5,525 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
11/29124° / 304°
LENGTH1,622 m5,322 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
32K
30K
26K
25K
26K
28K
28K
34K
36K
8K
5K
23K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers23K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,391of 3,974 · #122 Oceania · #74 AULongest runway1,684 m5,525 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#5,326of 29,823 · #242 Oceania · #167 AUElevation326 m1,069 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=16,640of 43,341 · =556 Oceania · #258 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

4 channels
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR135.250
AWIS128.550
PAL119.600