King Island Airport

King Island Airport (KNS/YKII) is in AU, AU, 40 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 1,584 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
KNS · YKII
City
Country
AU
Coordinates
-39.8775, 143.8780
Elevation
40 m · 132 ft
Time zone
Australia/Hobart
Local time now
23:09
Airspace
Melbourne (Huon) 122.6
Departures observed
8 · 0 arrivals
Most seen destinations
MBW, MEL, BWT

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 (7)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
10:07XLBPA31 · VH-XLBMBW
14:19RXA3874SF34 · VH-ZLSMEL
15:35XLBPA31 · VH-XLBMBW
15:56SH899SW4 · VH-SRU
09:12SH893SW4 · VH-EWYBWT
09:48KIYPA31 · VH-KIY
09:53XLBPA31 · VH-XLB

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 (3)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
10/281,584 m · 5,198 ftasphalt115° · 295°
17/351,107 m · 3,632 ftCOM185° · 5°
06/24800 m · 2,626 ftgravel74° · 254°

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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And this on board

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