Jandakot Airport
Jandakot Airport (IATA: JAD, ICAO: YPJT) is an Australian general aviation airport located in Jandakot, Western Australia. 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 Perth metropolitan area, within the City of Cockburn, and just south of Leeming and west of Canning Vale.
The airport recorded 275,506 aircraft movements in fiscal year 2011, making it the busiest airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements. It has a reported capacity of 514,650 per annum.
Its post code is 6164.
Tenants
The airport provides a base for essential service organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), Department of Environment and Conservation Forest and Bushfire Patrol, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia (FESA) (now known as DFES) emergency helicopter and the WA Police Air Support. Jandakot is also an important training base for international and domestic airline pilots, with Singapore Airlines operating its own pilot training establishment (Singapore Flying College); China Southern Airlines also has a flying college at the airport, as well as Advanced Cockpit Flight Training.
