BWT

Wynyard Airport

ICAO YWYY40.9970°S 145.7260°E19 m / 62 ftMedium airport
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Wynyard Airport (IATA: BWT, ICAO: YWYY) is a medium airport in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. It opened on 26 Feb 1934. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,650 m (5,413 ft). In 2022 it handled 68 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1934–1934
26 FEB 1934
OpenedWynyard Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Burnie Airport
09/27099° / 279° · LIT
LENGTH1,650 m5,413 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
05/23065° / 245°
LENGTH767 m2,516 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEPaved

Passengers per year

2011–2022
69K
68K
68K
63K
64K
60K
61K
71K
72K
25K
23K
68K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsSharp Airlines 2QantasLink 1Rex Airlines 1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers68K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,958of 3,974 · #88 Oceania · #53 AULongest runway1,650 m5,413 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=5,575of 29,823 · =256 Oceania · =180 AUElevation19 m62 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,537of 43,341 · =1,696 Oceania · =1,038 AUAgeOpened 19342026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=552of 15,079 · =20 Oceania · =15 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

3 channels
CTAFCTAF126.900
FSSMELBOURNE CNTR122.600
AWISAWS Weather133.350