Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin

Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin (DRW/YPDN) is in Darwin, AU, 31 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 3,354 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
DRW · YPDN
City
Darwin
Country
AU
Coordinates
-12.4150, 130.8818
Elevation
31 m · 103 ft
Time zone
Australia/Darwin
Local time now
22:48
Airspace
Brisbane (Territory North) 123.85
Departures observed
121 · 37 arrivals
Most seen destinations
BNE, SYD, TSV, SIN

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
09:30MJNC210 · VH-MJN—
09:30FD858PC12 · VH-FGR—
09:52UOPC208 · VH-UOP—
09:59OVCSW3 · VH-OVC—
10:21BPCPA30 · VH-BPC—
10:42—C441 · VH-JVN—
10:50CFH27BE20 · VH-ZCNDRW
11:05—F900 · VH-PPD—
11:08UOLC208 · VH-UOL—
11:12UOTC208 · VH-UOT—
11:13QLK1959E190 · VH-XVQDRW
11:15KONA01V22 · 168682—
11:17NADPA31 · VH-NAD—
11:19UOYC208 · VH-UOY—
11:35UOFC208 · VH-UOF—
11:36QFA824B738 · VH-VZDDRW
11:39FD876PC12 · VH-FDE—
11:50QFA840B738 · VH-VXADRW
11:52UOXC208 · VH-UOX—
12:21—PC12 · VH-FNT—
12:47QFA825B738 · VH-VZDBNE
13:06ANO216E120 · VH-DILDRW
13:06QFA841B738 · VH-VXASYD
13:11RHOPC12 · VH-RHODRW
13:13JVBC441 · VH-JVB—
13:22JVEC441 · VH-JVE—
13:27—C310 · VH-AEY—
13:36SLAEC75 · VH-SLA—
13:56VTRPA31 · VH-VTR—
14:00QLK1905E190 · VH-XVO—
14:17QLK351E190 · VH-XVQDRW
14:52VOZ454B738 · VH-VUXBNE
15:14BFLO46P8 · A47-010—
15:48TFX51B738 · ZK-TXBBNE
15:49QLK1960E190 · VH-XVMDRW
16:00UOLC208 · VH-UOL—
16:07CFH29BE20 · VH-XCF—
16:09UOYC208 · VH-UOY—
16:13SIA254B38M · 9V-MBSSIN
17:01JST678A320 · VH-VQKDRW

Landed (37)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
09:39JVEC441 · VH-JVE—
09:48JVNC441 · VH-JVN—
10:02NYJEC75 · VH-NYJ—
11:20QLK1959E190 · VH-XVQDRW
11:41QFA824B738 · VH-VZDDRW
11:45ANO219E120 · VH-DIL—
11:56QFA840B738 · VH-VXADRW
12:03MJNC210 · VH-MJN—
12:55QLK1980E190 · VH-XVOCNS
13:11BDF11DH8B · VH-ZZA—
13:14CFH29BE20 · VH-XCF—
13:18UOXC208 · VH-UOX—
13:22BFLO46P8 · A47-010—
13:26VOZ447B738 · VH-VUXBNE
14:11UOLC208 · VH-UOL—
14:37QLK1993E190 · VH-XVMADL
14:45VOZ1459B38M · VH-8ICMEL
14:52SIA253B38M · 9V-MBSSIN
14:58UOYC208 · VH-UOY—
15:25XGJC210 · VH-XGJ—
16:18QFA429B738 · VH-VZMMEL
16:27ANO161E190 · VH-XFM—
16:32ANO216E120 · VH-DILDRW
17:12JST678A320 · VH-VQKDRW
17:15QLK351E190 · VH-XVQDRW
17:17UOYC208 · VH-UOY—
17:41CFH27BE20 · VH-ZCNDRW
18:11ANO331E190 · VH-XFLPER
18:28ANO406E170 · VH-SWO—
18:36RHOPC12 · VH-RHODRW
20:16QLK1960E190 · VH-XVMDRW
20:27ANO116E190 · VH-XFMDRW
22:05QLK1905E190 · VH-XVOADL
23:40QFA624B738 · VH-VZTBNE
23:57JST820A320 · VH-VGUBNE
00:28JST461A320 · VH-VGQSYD
05:05QFA48B738 · VH-VZZSIN

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
11/293,354 m · 11,004 ftasphalt109° · 289°
18/361,524 m · 5,000 ftasphalt180° · 0°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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