# Tennant Creek Airport (TCA / YTNK)

**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.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ytnk

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: TCA / YTNK
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
- Elevation: 377 m / 1,236 ft
- Coordinates: -19.6344, 134.1830
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 1,959 m / 6,427 ft
- Passengers: 8,500 (2018)
- Time zone: UTC+9:30 · Australia/Darwin
- Website: http://www.tennantcreekairport.com.au/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennant_Creek_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17623
- Weather station: YTNK
- Ident: YTNK

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 07/25 | 1,959 m / 6,427 ft | 30 m / 98 ft | Asphalt | 073° / 253° | yes |
| 11/29 | 1,057 m / 3,468 ft | 18 m / 59 ft | Asphalt | 119° / 299° | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2003 | 5,106 | Wikidata |
| 2004 | 3,486 | Wikidata |
| 2005 | 5,943 | Wikidata |
| 2006 | 2,028 | Wikidata |
| 2010 | 895 | Wikidata |
| 2011 | 2,815 | Wikidata |
| 2012 | 1,527 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 839 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 856 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 4,443 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 5,853 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 8,500 | Wikidata |

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [ASP](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ybas.md) Alice Springs Airport · Australia · 465 km / 289 mi · Airnorth
- [KTR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/yptn.md) Tindal Airport · Australia · 600 km / 373 mi · Airnorth
- [DRW](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ypdn.md) Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin · Australia · 877 km / 545 mi · Airnorth

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from TCA, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- TL [Airnorth](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/airnorth) · 3

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 9K (2018) | #2,751 of 3,974 | #159 in Oceania | #98 in AU |
| Longest runway | 1,959 m / 6,427 ft | #4,161 of 29,858 | #141 in Oceania | #89 in AU |
| Elevation | 377 m / 1,236 ft | =14,588 of 43,403 | #495 in Oceania | #206 in AU |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =62 in Oceania | =33 in AU |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CTAF | CTAF | 126.700 |
| FSS | BRISBANE CNTR | 122.100 |

## Nearby airports

- [YBNY](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ybny.md) Brunchilly Airport · 91 km / 57 mi
- [AU-0119](https://dromopedia.com/airports/au-0119.md) Banka Banka Airstrip · 94 km / 59 mi
- [KRD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ykur.md) Kurundi Airport · 110 km / 68 mi
- [WAU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ywac.md) Wauchope Airport · 112 km / 70 mi
- [RDA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/au-rda.md) Rockhampton Downs Airport · 131 km / 81 mi
- [YHLN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/yhln.md) Helen Springs Airstrip · 137 km / 85 mi

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Tennant Creek Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tennant_Creek_Airport&oldid=1363316170), revision of 9 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/ytnk/data