Bundaberg Airport
Bundaberg Airport
Bundaberg Airport (IATA: BDB, ICAO: YBUD) is a regional airport serving Bundaberg, a city in the Australian state of Queensland. It is located 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) southwest of the city centre, on North Childers Road and Takalvan Street. The airport is owned and operated by the Bundaberg Regional Council. It is also known as Bundaberg Regional Airport. The Royal Flying Doctor Service has one of its nine Queensland bases at Bundaberg Airport. The Bundaberg Regional Council conducted major works on the runway, terminal, carpark and navigation aids in 2009–10 in an attempt to attract services using larger jet airliners.
Location
24.905°S, 152.323°E · 33 m s. n. m. (107 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Flight information
Common traffic (CTAF)
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
Bundaberg Airport was officially opened on 12 December 1931, by the Minister for Trade and Customs, Frank Forde, as a civilian aerodrome. The aerodrome was renamed in 1936 to Hinkler Airport after Bundaberg's famous pioneering aviator Bert Hinkler.
World War II
With the outbreak of World War II, it was decided as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to requisition Bundaberg Airport and develop it as a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Flying Training School.
Known as RAAF Station Bundaberg it was initially used in 1941 by No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (12 EFTS), until that unit relocated to Lowood Aerodrome (located at Tarampa) on 12 January 1942. No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF then operated from the base.
Units based at Bundaberg
No. 32 Squadron RAAF ('B' Flight) – 1 May 1943 – 4 September 1944
No. 66 Squadron RAAF – 20 May 1943 – 6 January 1944
No. 71 Squadron RAAF ('B' Flight) – 1 May 1942 – 26 January 1943
No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF – 14 December 1941 – 25 July 1945
No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF – 16 October 1941 – 12 January 1942
No. 88 Operational Base Unit RAAF – 14 June 1945 – 26 April 1946
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force Personnel and equipment pool – 25 June 1945 – 26 April 1946.
Bundaberg War Graves
Located within the Bundaberg General Cemetery, it contains the burial places of 46 soldiers and airmen of the Australian Forces and five airmen of the United States Army Air Forces.
Post war
The Department of Civil Aviation took over Bundaberg Aerodrome on 31 July 1946. Bundaberg Regional Council took over the airport in June 1983. A new terminal was opened on 9 May 1986. A major extension to Bundaberg Airport was completed in March 2010, making the runway capable of handling jet aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, and also including an expansion of the terminal.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Bundaberg Airport (BDB). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BDB
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BibTeX
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