WYA

Whyalla Airport

ICAO YWHA33.0589°S 137.5140°E13 m / 41 ftMedium airport
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Whyalla Airport (IATA: WYA, ICAO: YWHA) is a medium airport in Whyalla, South Australia, Australia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,686 m (5,531 ft). It is operated by Whyalla. In 2022 it handled 55 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Whyalla Airport Terminal
17/35175° / 355° · LIT
LENGTH1,686 m5,531 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
05/23054° / 234° · LIT
LENGTH1,408 m4,619 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEGravel

Passengers per year

2011–2022
68K
73K
67K
61K
67K
63K
65K
76K
79K
28K
48K
55K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers55K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,054of 3,974 · #96 Oceania · #58 AULongest runway1,686 m5,531 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,316of 29,823 · #241 Oceania · #166 AUElevation13 m41 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,711of 43,341 · =1,824 Oceania · =1,104 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
CTAFCTAF126.900
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR123.900