# Broken Hill Airport (BHQ)

> Broken Hill, AU · IATA: BHQ · ICAO: YBHI · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BHQ` |
| ICAO | `YBHI` |
| City | Broken Hill |
| Country | AU |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 292 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | -32.00140, 141.47200 |

## Description

Two runways — 2,515 m of asphalt plus a 1,000 m grass strip — serve Broken Hill Airport (IATA: BHQ, ICAO: YBHI), the passenger and air-ambulance field of far-western New South Wales, which last publicly reported 63,098 passengers in financial year 2010-11. Regional Express (Rex) flies the scheduled links to Sydney and Adelaide, so air freight moves only as belly loads: there is no freight terminal and no freighter service. The Royal Flying Doctor Service bases its South Eastern Operations here, and mining companies use the field extensively. Lead, zinc and silver leave the district by the Barrier Highway and the standard-gauge Sydney-Perth railway rather than by air. Shippers with genuine air cargo work through Adelaide (ADL, roughly 510 km by road) or Sydney (SYD, about 1,150 km), fed by long-haul trucking. The airport belongs to Broken Hill City Council, which invested around AUD 5 million from the NSW Resources for Regions programme in aprons and taxiways and continues to seek funding for a runway able to take Boeing 737-class aircraft. Operations are running normally.

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