Mount Hotham Airport

Mount Hotham Airport (IATA: MHU, ICAO: YHOT) is a small Australian regional airport, which serves the Victorian ski resort of Mount Hotham. The airport opened in 2000, and it is Australia's highest-altitude airport.

Mount Hotham Airport
Summary
Airport typePrivate
OperatorMHSC Transportation Services Pty Ltd.
LocationCobungra,  Victoria,  Australia
Elevation AMSL4,260 ft / 1,298 m
Coordinates37°02′51″S 147°20′03″E
Map
YHOT
Location in Victoria
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 1,460 4,790 Asphalt
Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart[1]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Airly[nb 1] Charter: Bankstown, Essendon[2]
QantasLinkSeasonal charter: Sydney
  1. Aircraft leased from operator. Airly requires an initial subscription fee prior to flight booking.

QantasLink formerly served Mount Hotham with Bombardier Q200s from Sydney, but ceased flights after the airline reported heavy losses in 2011.[3]

Incidents and accidents

On 8 July 2005, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain charter plane crashed into terrain while attempting to make a landing at the airport, killing the pilot and two passengers. Fragments of the aircraft were said to have dropped on the ground at the nearby sub-alpine community of Cobungra.[4]

See also

References
  1. YHOT – Mount Hotham (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 05 Nov 2020, Aeronautical Chart Archived 11 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Qantas in fight for life after 5000 jobs axed nationwide". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. "Aviation Safety Investigation Report 200503265 - Collision with terrain, Piper PA-31-350 VH-OAO at Mt Hotham". Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Department of Transport and Regional Services, Government of Australia. Retrieved 9 June 2007.


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