Paraburdoo Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...

serving Paraburdoo, a town in the

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region of

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. The airport is located northeast of Paraburdoo. It also serves the town of Tom Price, with bus services completing the extra to Tom Price. The airport is owned by Rio Tinto Group and operated by

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. Paraburdoo's primary air traffic is made up by a mixture of

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and

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flights, as well as general aviation light aircraft. Qantas operates 32 direct flights weekly to and from

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operate two Perth direct flights per week, with two closed charter flights weekly to Carnarvon and

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Runways

*Runway: 06/24 *Dimensions: *Surface: Asphalt *True heading: 245.0 *Latitude: 23° 10' 02.54" S *Longitude 117° 45' 22.97" E *Elevation: *Slope: -0.4° *Landing distance: *Takeoff distance:

Lighting System

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(PCL) * Low Intensity Runway Lights (LIRL) *

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(PAPI) * Portable

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* On 17 June 2007 a twin-engine charter aircraft had a fault with its landing gear and was forced to circle for over two hours before making an emergency landing on Paraburdoo's runway. The incident required a cleanup of the runway as well as cranes to remove the aircraft. A QantasLink

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from Perth to Paraburdoo was forced to divert to Newman Airport.

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Paraburdoo Airport was ranked 34th in Australia for the number of

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s served in

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2010–2011.

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1 July – 30 June Refers to "Regular Public Transport (RPT) operations only"

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Lighting System

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

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