Jandakot Airport is a

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(GA) airport located in

Jandakot, Western Australia Jandakot is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn local government area. It is best known for Jandakot Airport that is situated entirely within the suburb, the airport being "the busiest general ...

, about south-southwest of the "general aviation area of the Airport West precinct" at

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. Jandakot airport opened in 1963. From 1 July 1998, Jandakot Airport Holdings purchased a 50-year lease with a 49-year option to operate and maintain the airport including its conservation areas. Originally built on unproductive farm lands, it is now among residential suburbs in the south of the

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metropolitan area, within the

City of Cockburn The City of Cockburn ( ) is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about south of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of and had a po ...

, and just south of Leeming and west of

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. Jandakot Airport is "the busiest general aviation airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements". The airport recorded 208,778 aircraft movements in the

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ending 30 June 2018, also 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. Jandakot Airport has a theoretical operating capacity of 526,000 aircraft movements per annum, which could be reached "within the 20-year planning horizon of" the 2014 Jandakot Airport Master Plan.

Tenants

Jandokot Memorial to The Sugar Bird Lady

The airport provides a base for essential service organisations such as the

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(RFDS), Department of Environment and Conservation Forest and Bushfire Patrol,

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(FESA) (now known as

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) emergency helicopter and the

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Air Support. Jandakot is also an important training base for international and domestic airline pilots, with

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operating its own pilot training establishment (

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);

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also has a flying college at the airport, as well as Advanced Cockpit Flight Training. Over 65 businesses employing 900 people operate at what is Australia's largest GA airport. In addition to ten flying schools for both fixed wing and rotary operations, three

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s, large maintenance, avionics, spares, instruments, electrical, aircraft sales,

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and photographic businesses are present. These include Airflite, a large defence contractor and Fugro the world's largest aerial geophysical survey company. There are also a number of charter operators such as Penjet Aviation, Corsaire, Casair, Goldfields Air Services, Brooks Airways which provide flights for the

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staff of remote mining companies. On the main road opposite the tower there is a memorial to Robin Miller, the "Sugarbird Lady", who as a nurse and later RFDS pilot brought vaccinations to remote Western Australian communities.

Natural environment

Jandakot Airport covers with of

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woodlands; this includes of conservation reserve. Within the airport boundaries, 290 native

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species have been identified including the endangered Grand Spider Orchid (''

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hueglii''). Over 100

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species have also been identified. The

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and

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s can be seen feeding on the maintained areas of grassland around sunset most nights. Two sites of Aboriginal heritage land have been identified with the airport; both of these are included in the conservation reserve. These sites contain scattered small artifacts.

Relocation plans

On 15 June 2006, Jandakot Airport Holdings, after being bought out by property developer Ascot Capital Limited, announced a proposal to relocate the airport's operations to the southern outskirts of Perth, possibly to a site in the Shire of Murray near the city of Mandurah. The proposal's success depends on the successful negotiation of a land swap arrangement with

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and

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governments. The Jandakot Airport Chamber of Commerce and many users of Jandakot Airport were opposed to the relocation, as were the residents of the proposed site but not the residents at its current site.

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, the former Federal Minister for Transport, in December 2006 formally advised the leaseholders of Jandakot Airport that the Federal Government had effectively stopped any plans for the relocation of the airport for the foreseeable future. Under the provisions of the Airports Act 1996 and the lease granted to Jandakot Airport Holdings, the leaseholders are to give priority to running the airport as an airport.

Jandakot City

In 2006, Ascot Capital Limited announced plans to develop of land around the airport, approved for non-aviation related development by the federal government. The project would provide up to of leasable space.

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confirmed that they will take up , including of floorspace, in the first stage of Jandakot City.

Flight-specific information

This airport has three runways: * 06L/24R, * 06R/24L, * 12/30, * Latitude: 32°05'51"S (−32.096667) * Longitude: 115°52'52"E (115.881667) * Elevation: * Time Zone: UTC+8 Frequencies in use: * Tower 1/CTAF(R): 118.1 (runway 12/30 and 06L/24R all departures except Armadale) * Tower 2: 119.4 (runway 06R/24L departures to Armadale and circuits) * Ground: 124.3 * ATIS: 128.65, 281 * PAL: 123.9 * NDB: 281 *

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: 132.95 * Fuel: 129.9 (Air BP), 121.8 (Viva Energy)

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References

External links

Jandakot Airport
official website
Jandakot Tower (Airservices Australia)

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