Somersby Airfield (

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: YSMB,

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: GOS) is an airfield located in Somersby, New South Wales, Australia. It is by road from the nearby city of

Gosford Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extre ...

. It is the sole

aerodrome An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

in Somersby, and does not serve scheduled commercial traffic. The airfield is operated by Somersby Airfield Pty Ltd.

Facilities

Somersby airport consists of a single

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

and various hangars. It has a

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as a runway feature and an aviation fuel supply. It also has a water supply and lavatories as passenger facilities.

Operations

Microlight Adventures, a company that provides recreational joy flights on

microlight aircraft Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and Aircraft flight control system, conventional three-a ...

, is based at Somersby airfield. Somersby occasionally serves

general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...

traffic.

Radio procedures

Somersby has no control center and pilots communicate over a

Common Traffic Advisory Frequency Common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) is the name given to the VHF radio frequency used for air-to-air communication at United States, Canadian and Australian non-towered airports. Many towered airports close their towers overnight, keeping ...

References

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