Melbourne Moorabbin Airport

Melbourne Moorabbin Airport (MBW/YMMB) is in Melbourne, AU, 15 m above sea level. It has 5 runways and the longest is 1,335 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
MBW · YMMB
City
Melbourne
Country
AU
Coordinates
-37.9778, 145.0998
Elevation
15 m · 50 ft
Time zone
Australia/Melbourne
Local time now
00:43
Airspace
Melbourne (Benalla) 132.2
Departures observed
201 · 153 arrivals
Most seen destinations
MEB, LST

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
10:00TVQPA44 · VH-TVQYPKL
10:05ZUMPA31 · VH-ZUM—
11:30NC172 · VH-EUEMBW
11:54OXKPA44 · VH-OXKMBW
12:00RQMP28A · VH-RQMMBW
12:04JIOP28A · VH-JIOMBW
12:278GT—MEB
12:31KXUC172 · VH-KXUWMB
12:58YHHDA40 · VH-YHHMBW
12:58NLOPA44 · VH-NLOMBW
13:04EOTC172 · VH-EOT—
13:24XLBPA31 · VH-XLB—
13:29KHVC172 · VH-KHVWMB
13:30NKLC152 · VH-NKLMBW
13:34KKEC152 · VH-KKEMBW
13:45BZEP28A · VH-BZEMBW
13:46OXWPA44 · VH-OXWMEB
13:47OXMPA44 · VH-OXMMBW
13:51UZTSR20 · VH-UZTMBW
13:54KAIDA40 · VH-KAIMBW
14:12NCEPA44 · VH-NCEMBW
14:23OXJPA44 · VH-OXJ—
14:27KGJC172 · VH-KGJMEB
14:27YZDR44 · VH-YZD—
14:30KHEC172 · VH-KHE—
14:38NC172 · VH-EUEYGNE
14:42HWAAS50 · VH-HWAMEB
14:45JIOP28A · VH-JIOMBW
14:55DINC172 · VH-DINMBW
14:56EWUC172 · VH-EWUYCES
14:58NJLC172 · VH-NJLMEB
14:58KDIC172 · VH-KDIMBW
15:25VFAPA34 · VH-VFAMBW
15:44NKLC152 · VH-NKL—
15:46EWFC172 · VH-EWFYMNG
16:09YHHDA40 · VH-YHHMBW
16:09NKZC172 · VH-NKZYMPC
16:18UUDSLG2 · VH-UUDMBW
16:23OXGPA44 · VH-OXGMBW
16:46LLFSLG2 · VH-LLFMBW

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
10:34KIYPA31 · VH-KIY—
10:468GT—MEB
10:48XLBPA31 · VH-XLBKNS
10:55OXGPA44 · VH-OXGYLOD
11:05OXWPA44 · VH-OXWYCRE
12:07OXKPA44 · VH-OXKMBW
12:15NC172 · VH-EUEMBW
12:50OZQC208 · VH-OZQ—
12:57JIOP28A · VH-JIOMBW
13:08RQMP28A · VH-RQMMBW
13:14YHHDA40 · VH-YHHMBW
13:24VFAPA34 · VH-VFAYTYA
13:288GT—MEB
13:32HWAAS50 · VH-HWAMEB
13:51NLOPA44 · VH-NLOMBW
14:11KKEC152 · VH-KKEMBW
14:23NKLC152 · VH-NKLMBW
14:29BZEP28A · VH-BZEMBW
14:38KAIDA40 · VH-KAIMBW
14:39NJLC172 · VH-NJLYMPC
14:44NCEPA44 · VH-NCEMBW
15:00UZTSR20 · VH-UZTMBW
15:11ARCPC12 · VH-ARCBWU
15:32VDRSR20 · VH-VDRYLEG
15:33OXMPA44 · VH-OXMMBW
15:34FOWPA44 · VH-FOWYMPC
15:37L4X—AU-0728
15:38OXWPA44 · VH-OXW—
15:42JIOP28A · VH-JIOMBW
15:57DINC172 · VH-DINMBW
16:16XLBPA31 · VH-XLBKNS
16:26VFAPA34 · VH-VFAMBW
16:38KXUC172 · VH-KXUWMB
17:02OXJPA44 · VH-OXJTGN
17:11UUDSLG2 · VH-UUDMBW
17:26LLFSLG2 · VH-LLFMBW
17:28KHVC172 · VH-KHVWMB
17:29KDIC172 · VH-KDIMBW
17:33CCISLG2 · VH-CCIMBW
17:40KGJC172 · VH-KGJMEB

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 (5)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
17L/35R1,335 m · 4,380 ftasphalt176° · 356°
17R/35L1,240 m · 4,069 ftasphalt176° · 356°
13L/31R1,149 m · 3,770 ftasphalt142° · 322°
13R/31L1,060 m · 3,478 ftasphalt142° · 322°
04/22571 m · 1,873 ftasphalt47° · 227°

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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