Tennant Creek Airport
Tennant Creek Airport
Tennant Creek Airport (IATA: TCA, ICAO: YTNK) is a small regional airport located near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia. Located one kilometre from the remote outback township of Tennant Creek, the airport caters to mining companies and small, predominantly Aboriginal, communities in the surrounding area, providing an important link for the local population with Alice Springs, Katherine, Darwin and other regional centres. The current operator of the airport is Tennant Creek Airport Pty Ltd. Airport operations include scheduled passenger service, mail flights to outlying communities, charters and aeromedical flights.
Location
19.634°S, 134.183°E · 377 m s. n. m. (1.236 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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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
World War II
During World War II, the airfield was utilised as a staging airfield between South Australia and Darwin, Northern Territory, by the Royal Australian Air Force.
Units that utilised Tennant Creek Airfield
No. 34 Squadron RAAF
Post-war
The terminal facilities at Tennant Creek Airport were constructed during the 1960s.
On 1 April 1989, the Federal Airports Corporation took control of the airport, and on 10 June 1998, passed control and management to the Airport Development Group (ADG). ADG hold a 50-year lease over Tennant Creek Airport with free option for a further 49 years.
In June 2013, Chartair began services twice weekly to Alice Springs after receiving a subsidy from the Federal Government to operate the route under the Remote Air Services Subsidy Scheme.
Airnorth announced in 2015 that they would serve Tennant Creek and Katherine three times per week as intermediate stops on the "centre run" between Darwin and Alice Springs, using Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Tony Bowden from Tallinn, Estonia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · view original
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).
Cite
To cite this page in academic work, an article or Wikipedia, choose the style and copy the reference. The access date is today.
This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Tennant Creek Airport (TCA). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA
MLA
“Tennant Creek Airport (TCA).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Tennant Creek Airport (TCA).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Tennant Creek Airport (TCA). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA (Accessed: 24 October 2026).
BibTeX
@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_tca,
author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Tennant Creek Airport (TCA)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA}},
urldate = {2026-10-24},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}Wikipedia
{{cite web |url=https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TCA |title=Tennant Creek Airport (TCA) |website=Vuelopedia |publisher=Fundación Poderia |date=2026-10-15 |access-date=2026-10-24 |language=en}}