King Island Airport
King Island Airport
King Island Airport (IATA: KNS, ICAO: YKII) is a small regional airport located near the town of Currie on King Island off the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. The airport is owned and operated by the King Island Council.
Location
39.877°S, 143.878°E · 40 m s. n. m. (132 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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
An aerodrome site on King Island was selected in 1932. This was seen as a necessity by the community who previously had relied entirely on slow ships in the treacherous Bass Strait to access Tasmania and the mainland. The first flight landed on 24 December that year. The aerodrome was licensed for commercial operations in January 1933, allowing Holyman's Airways to begin scheduled passenger service. At a ceremony on 2 December 1933, the airport was officially opened by Sir Ernest Clark, the Governor of Tasmania. Holyman's were joined in September 1934 by Tasmanian Aerial Services, who stopped at King Island as part of the Melbourne to Hobart leg of the Empire Airmail Service linking Australia with the United Kingdom. By February 1935, flights operated three times per week each to Melbourne and Launceston.
Airlines operating here · 3
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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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). King Island Airport (KNS). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS
MLA
“King Island Airport (KNS).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “King Island Airport (KNS).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) King Island Airport (KNS). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{King Island Airport (KNS)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/KNS}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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