Archerfield Airport YBAF
Brisbane's GA airport, 20 minutes south-west of the CBD, with customs by prior arrangement and low fees. Short runways restrict it to light jets and turboprops.
4,859 ft
Longest runway
20 min
Drive to Brisbane
1
FBOs / handlers
63 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- 06:00–22:00 (verify)
- 24-hour operations
- No
- Customs & immigration
- Yes
- Prior permission (PPR)
- Yes
- Slot coordination
- No
- Noise curfew
- Yes
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel
- Jet A-1, Avgas 100LL
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 11 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Turboprops and light jets (Citation, Phenom, PC-12).
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Archerfield Jet Base
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 4,859 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000S 4,325 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 500 4,084 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 500 4,222 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 450 3,907 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Latitude 3,580 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Sovereign+ 3,530 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000LXS needs 4,675 ft
- Bombardier Learjet 45XR needs 4,680 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 600 needs 4,717 ft
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