BHQYBHI

Broken Hill Airport

Broken Hill, Australia · Oceania

Oceania Australia/Adelaide

3direct destinations

2airlines

2runways

2,515 mLongest runway

Broken Hill Airport (IATA: BHQ, ICAO: YBHI) is an airport located 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) southeast of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The airport is used as a base of operations for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, South Eastern Operations, thus making it a very important hub for this service. It is also used extensively by the mining industry.

Location

32.001°S, 141.472°E · 292 m s. n. m. (958 ft)

General data

CountryAustralia

CityBroken Hill

IATA codeBHQ

ICAO codeYBHI

Coordinates32.001°S, 141.472°E

Elevation292 m s. n. m. (958 ft)

Time zoneAustralia/Adelaide

Runways2

Longest runway2,515 m

Direct destinations3

Official website

Runways · 2

05/23

Length2,515 m8,251 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

14/32

Length1,000 m3,281 ft

Width30 m98 ft

SurfaceSAN

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 2

Flight information

122.600MELBOURNE CNTR

Common traffic (CTAF)

126.700

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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.

Airlines operating here · 2

Other airlines with direct routes

Rex Airlines QantasLink

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Phil Vabre · GFDL · view original

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Broken Hill Airport (BHQ). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHQ

MLA

“Broken Hill Airport (BHQ).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHQ. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Broken Hill Airport (BHQ). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHQ (Accessed: 16 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_bhq,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Broken Hill Airport (BHQ)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHQ},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHQ}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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