Melbourne Essendon Airport

Melbourne Essendon Airport (MEB/YMEN) is in Essendon Fields, AU, 86 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 1,921 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
MEB · YMEN
City
Essendon Fields
Country
AU
Coordinates
-37.7281, 144.9020
Elevation
86 m · 282 ft
Time zone
Australia/Melbourne
Local time now
23:08
Airspace
Melbourne (Benalla) 132.2
Departures observed
122 · 96 arrivals
Most seen destinations
MBW, ABX, OOL, ADL, MEL

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
10:00QFA153B738 · VH-VZSAKL
10:00HMTR44 · VH-HMTMEB
10:00NEJR66 · VH-NEJMEB
10:00LKBR44 · VH-LKBMEB
10:04AM333B350 · VH-VAHMEB
10:168GT—MBW
10:26JMUPC12 · VH-JMU—
10:34WVVEC30 · VH-WVV—
10:39VOFC525 · VH-VOFADL
10:50AM312BE20 · VH-VAE—
12:37WVVEC30 · VH-WVV—
13:09HWAAS50 · VH-HWAMBW
13:14PDVG2CA · VH-PDV—
13:15FOWPA44 · VH-FOW—
13:188GT—MBW
13:22YDDBE36 · VH-YDD—
13:51WDAC172 · VH-WDAMEB
13:52APJC525 · VH-APJ—
14:05POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
14:14OXWPA44 · VH-OXW—
14:16AM312BE20 · VH-VAE—
14:18VJQDA42 · VH-VJQ—
14:27VNQTWEN · VH-VNQ—
14:31FX1A169 · VH-FOX—
14:56KGJC172 · VH-KGJMBW
15:07AM333B350 · VH-VAH—
15:16XPACL60 · VH-XPAOOL
15:29NJLC172 · VH-NJL—
15:40HM1A139 · VH-YXK—
16:32EJVBE10 · VH-EJV—
16:56FD229B350 · VH-MQKADL
17:39POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
17:48TWRPA31 · VH-TWR—
18:08TQPP46T · VH-TQP—
20:14AM311BE20 · VH-VAEMEB
20:16QOLSR20 · VH-QOL—
20:50AM311BE20 · VH-VAD—
21:00POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
22:54HM2A139 · VH-YXH—
23:22AM311BE20 · VH-VADMEB

Landed (40)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
10:38SH833SW4 · VH-UUB—
11:03POL32A139 · VH-PVR—
11:04APJC525 · VH-APJ—
11:09LKBR44 · VH-LKBMEB
11:10HMTR44 · VH-HMTMEB
11:24NEJR66 · VH-NEJMEB
12:13WVVEC30 · VH-WVV—
12:388GT—MBW
12:51AM312BE20 · VH-VAE—
12:57FOWPA44 · VH-FOW—
13:14VNQTWEN · VH-VNQABX
13:29AM333B350 · VH-VAHMEB
13:59VJQDA42 · VH-VJQ—
14:02OXWPA44 · VH-OXWMBW
14:07XPACL60 · VH-XPAMCY
14:42KGJC172 · VH-KGJMBW
14:48FD229B350 · VH-MQK—
14:57HWAAS50 · VH-HWAMBW
15:07WDAC172 · VH-WDAMEB
15:15NJLC172 · VH-NJLMBW
15:45POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
15:57AM311BE20 · VH-VAE—
16:21FX1A169 · VH-FOX—
16:55AM336B350 · VH-VAH—
16:59SGAGLF6 · VH-SGABNE
17:30TQPP46T · VH-TQP—
18:30POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
18:33YJAAC6L · VH-YJA—
19:06HM1A139 · VH-YXKABX
19:23LEPGLEX · VH-LEPTSV
20:06QOLSR20 · VH-QOL—
21:50POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB
22:00FD258B350 · VH-MQKADL
22:16HM2A139 · VH-YXH—
22:21AM311BE20 · VH-VAD—
22:51TWRPA31 · VH-TWR—
23:02POL32A139 · VH-PVR—
23:20AM311BE20 · VH-VAEMEB
02:11AM311BE20 · VH-VADMEB
02:16POL32A139 · VH-PVRMEB

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
08/261,921 m · 6,302 ftasphalt88° · 268°
17/351,314 m · 4,311 ftasphalt177° · 357°

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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