Launceston Airport

Launceston Airport (LST/YMLT) is in Launceston (Western Junction), AU, 171 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 1,981 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

14L32R14R32L1836
Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
LST · YMLT
City
Launceston (Western Junction)
Country
AU
Coordinates
-41.5449, 147.2108
Elevation
171 m · 562 ft
Time zone
Australia/Hobart
Local time now
00:39
Airspace
Melbourne (Huon) 122.6
Departures observed
29 · 20 arrivals
Most seen destinations
MEL, SYD, HBA

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 (24)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
10:01JST746A320 · VH-VFQSYD
10:40VOZ1365B738 · VH-YFSMEL
11:32SH801SW4 · VH-EWYAU-0451
11:37JST734A20N · VH-A5CMEL
12:33QLK7802BCS3 · VH-X4BMEL
14:19AM793BE20 · VH-RFDYBUI
16:05VOZ1093B738 · VH-YFYSYD
16:44JST736A320 · VH-X3FMEL
16:55VOZ1373B738 · VH-YFUMEL
17:04QLK1534A20N · VH-X4ISYD
19:07QLK7804BCS3 · VH-X4AMEL
20:54QFA7365A321 · VH-XF5MEL
21:11JST738A320 · VH-XSJMEL
21:40AM712BE20 · VH-RFDHBA
02:23TFX94B738 · ZK-TXCMEL
04:21QFA7367A321 · VH-XF6
06:18VOZ1361B738 · VH-YFYMEL
06:39QLK98DDH8D · VH-QOWMEL
07:01SH892SW4 · VH-EWYYBUI
08:07SH801FA27 · VH-SEFAU-0451
08:44AM769BE20 · VH-RFD
09:35KEYBE36 · VH-KEY
09:39JST746A320 · VH-VFO
09:58QLK92DDH8D · VH-LQK

Landed (20)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
10:47JST733A20N · VH-A5CMEL
11:43QLK7801BCS3 · VH-X4BMEL
12:06AM793BE20 · VH-RFDYCBG
13:02SH802SW4 · VH-EWYAU-0452
15:05VOZ1531B738 · VH-YFYSYD
15:53JST655A320 · VH-X3FMEL
16:03VOZ682B738 · VH-YFUMEL
16:11QLK1533A20N · VH-X4ISYD
17:38QLK1523BCS3 · VH-X4AMEL
20:12QLK83DDH8D · VH-QOWMEL
20:15QFA7376A321 · VH-XF5YCBG
20:22JST885A320 · VH-XSJMEL
20:57AM712BE20 · VH-RFDYCBG
22:23VOZ1380B738 · VH-YFYMEL
23:19AM712BE20 · VH-RFDYCBG
01:44TFX22B738 · ZK-TXCMEL
03:31QFA7356A321 · VH-XF6MEL
08:52JST504A320 · VH-VFOSYD
08:57KEYBE36 · VH-KEYMBW
09:10QLK50DDH8D · VH-LQKMEL

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
14R/32L1,981 m · 6,499 ftasphalt146° · 326°
14L/32R700 m · 2,297 ftgrass147° · 327°
18/36690 m · 2,264 ftgrass196° · 16°

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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