Mount Hotham Airport
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AMSL 4,260 ft / 1,298 m | | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°02′51″S 147°20′03″E / 37.04750°S 147.33417°E | ||||||||||
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  YHOT Location in Victoria | |||||||||||
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Mount Hotham Airport (
Victorian ski resort of Mount Hotham
. The airport opened in 2000, and it is Australia's highest-altitude airport.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Airly[nb 1] | Charter: Bankstown, Essendon[2] |
- ^ Aircraft leased from operator. Airly requires an initial subscription fee prior to flight booking.
Bombardier Q200s from Sydney, but ceased flights after the airline reported heavy losses in 2011.[3]
Incidents and accidents
On 8 July 2005, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain charter plane crashed into terrain while attempting to make a landing at the airport, killing the pilot and two passengers. Fragments of the aircraft were said to have dropped on the ground at the nearby sub-alpine community of Cobungra.[4]
Gallery
Images of the Mount Hotham Airport Terminal
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The Mount Hotham Airport Check-In area in 2016. -
Mount Hotham Airport Terminal area as captured in 2016. -
Mount Hotham Airport Terminal as viewed from the apron in 2016.
See also
- List of airports in Victoria
References
- ^ YHOT – Mount Hotham (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 21 March 2024, Aeronautical Chart Archived 11 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Deals | Airly | Save thousands on your next private jet trip". Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ "Qantas in fight for life after 5000 jobs axed nationwide". Herald Sun. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- Government of Australia. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
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