Moorabbin Airport
Moorabbin Harry Hawker Airport Melbourne–Moorabbin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Goodman Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Moorabbin Airport Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Moorabbin Airport, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 15 December 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 55 ft / 17 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°58′33″S 145°06′08″E / 37.97583°S 145.10222°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart Passenger and aircraft movements from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moorabbin (Harry Hawker) Airport (IATA: MBW, ICAO: YMMB) is a mostly general aviation airport for light aircraft located in between the southern Melbourne suburbs of Heatherton, Cheltenham, Dingley Village and Mentone. It also receives commercial airline service. The airport grounds are treated as their own suburb, and share the postcode 3194 with the neighbouring suburb of Mentone. With a total of 274,082 aircraft movements, Moorabbin Airport was the second busiest airport in Australia measured by aircraft movements for the calendar year of 2011.