TCA

Tennant Creek Airport

ICAO YTNK19.6344°S 134.1830°E377 m / 1,236 ftMedium airport
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Tennant Creek Airport (IATA: TCA, ICAO: YTNK) is a medium airport in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,959 m (6,427 ft). In 2018 it handled 9 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
07/25073° / 253° · LIT
LENGTH1,959 m6,427 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
11/29119° / 299° · LIT
LENGTH1,057 m3,468 ftWIDTH18 m59 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2003–2018
5K
3K
6K
2K
895
3K
2K
839
856
4K
6K
9K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TCA. From the Wikipedia article “Tennant Creek Airport” (revision of 9 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers9K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,751of 3,974 · #159 Oceania · #98 AULongest runway1,959 m6,427 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#4,160of 29,823 · #141 Oceania · #89 AUElevation377 m1,236 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,572of 43,341 · #494 Oceania · #206 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
CTAFCTAF126.700
FSSBRISBANE CNTR122.100