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Airport in Jervis Bay

Jervis Bay Airfield

IATA: none
ICAO: YJBY

Summary

Airport type

Military

Operator

RAN

Location

Jervis Bay

Elevation AMSL

200 ft / 61 m

Coordinates

35°08′48″S 150°41′48″E / 35.14667°S 150.69667°E / -35.14667; 150.69667

Map

YJBYLocation in Jervis Bay Territory

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
08/26 (Including non-landing zone)	1,919	6,296	Asphalt
15/33	1,522	4,993	Asphalt

Sources: AIP

Jervis Bay Airfield (ICAO: YJBY) is a military aerodrome in the Jervis Bay Territory in Australia. It is the only aerodrome in the territory and is located about 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Sussex Inlet; and about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Jervis Bay Village and HMAS Creswell.

It was opened in 1941 as a satellite airfield of Royal Australian Air Force Base Nowra (now HMAS Albatross). It was primarily used to support torpedo training by No. 6 Operational Training Unit RAAF and search and rescue operations during World War II. During 1945 it was home to the Royal Navy Mobile Naval Air Base MONAB V (HMS Nabswick) and several Fleet Air Arm squadrons of the British Pacific Fleet.

The airfield was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1948. It continued to be used as a base for the RAN's GAF Jindivik pilotless target aircraft. Today the RAN's British Aerospace MQM-107E Kalkara Flight is based at the airfield, along with the RAN School of Ship Survivability and Safety that has fire and damage control (flooding) training facilities.

References

YJBY – Jervis Bay (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 13 June 2024

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Other facilities	Delamere Air Weapons Range
RAAFs Curtin, Learmonth and Scherger are so-called "bare bases"

v t e Jervis Bay Territory, Australia
Villages	Jervis Bay Village Wreck Bay Village
Places of interest	Booderee National Park and Botanic Gardens Bowen Island Cape St George Lighthouse Greenpatch Point HMAS Creswell Jervis Bay Jervis Bay Airfield Jervis Bay Marine Park Jervis Bay National Park South Coast Pipe
Others	HMS Jervis Bay Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant proposal Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 Jervis Bay tree frog

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