YPJT
Perth Jandakot Airport
VFR
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Name
Perth Jandakot Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
YPJT / JAD / YPJT
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
3:38 am (AWST)
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Municipality
Perth
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Coordinates
32° 5′ 50″ S 115° 52′ 51″ E
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Elevation
99 ft (30 m MSL)
About Perth Jandakot Airport
Jandakot Airport (IATA: JAD, ICAO: YPJT) is a general aviation (GA) airport in Jandakot, Western Australia that opened in 1963, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-southwest of Perth Airport.
Originally built on unproductive farm lands, it is now among residential suburbs in the south of the Perth metropolitan area, within the City of Cockburn, and just south of Leeming and west of Canning Vale.
In 1990, a second parallel runway opened. In 1997, a lease was sold by the Federal Airports Corporation to a consortium of local property developers.
Jandakot Airport is the busiest general aviation airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements.: 2 The airport recorded 208,778 aircraft movements in the year ending 30 June 2018, making it the sixth-busiest civilian airport in Australia in that period as measured by aircraft movements. The airport reported 275,506 aircraft movements in the fiscal year 2011, making it the busiest civilian airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements in that financial year.