Bankstown Airport YSBK / BWU
Sydney's main GA reliever, 35 minutes south-west of the CBD, with no curfew-driven congestion and customs by prior arrangement. The short runway restricts it to turboprops and light jets; heavy traffic uses Kingsford Smith.
4,646 ft
Longest runway
35 min
Drive to Sydney
1
FBOs / handlers
29 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- 06:00–22:00 (verify); PPR for jets
- 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
- 22 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Turboprops and light jets (Citation CJ, Phenom 300, PC-12, King Air).
- Website
- www.bankstownairport.com.au
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Bankstown Airport FBO (Aeria Management)
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 4,646 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
- Bombardier Learjet 75 Liberty needs 4,440 ft
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000LXS needs 4,675 ft
- Bombardier Learjet 45XR needs 4,680 ft
Other airports for Sydney
- Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport YSSY 13,000 ft · 20 min