WGA

Wagga Wagga Airport

ICAO YSWG35.1635°S 147.4683°E221 m / 724 ftMedium airport
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Wagga Wagga Airport (IATA: WGA, ICAO: YSWG) is a medium airport in Forest Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It opened in 1937. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,770 m (5,807 ft). It is operated by City of Wagga Wagga. In 2022 it handled 173 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1937–1937
1937
OpenedWagga Wagga Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23062° / 242° · LIT
LENGTH1,770 m5,807 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
12/30125° / 305° · LIT · SLOPE 1.2%
LENGTH851 m2,792 ftWIDTH18 m59 ftSURFACEDirt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
207K
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173K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsRex Airlines 2QantasLink 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from WGA. From the Wikipedia article “Wagga Wagga Airport” (revision of 4 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers173K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,601of 3,974 · #58 Oceania · #32 AULongest runway1,770 m5,807 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,014of 29,823 · =198 Oceania · =133 AUElevation221 m724 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=22,890of 43,341 · =740 Oceania · =412 AUAgeOpened 19372026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=703of 15,079 · =27 Oceania · #21 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

2 channels
CTAFCTAF118.200
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR119.500