Port Keats Airfield

IATA: PKT – ICAO: YPKT

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Victoria Daly Shire Council

Location

Wadeye, Northern Territory

Elevation AMSL

112 ft / 34 m

Coordinates

14°14′54″S 129°31′42″E / 14.24833°S 129.52833°ECoordinates: 14°14′54″S 129°31′42″E / 14.24833°S 129.52833°E

Map

YPKT

Location in the Northern Territory

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
16/34	1,410	4,626	Asphalt

Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart^[1]

Port Keats Airfield (IATA: PKT, ICAO: YPKT) is an airport at Wadeye, Northern Territory (Port Keats) in Australia.

World War II

During World War II, the airfield was used as an emergency landing ground for Royal Australian Air Force fighters and bombers returning from flying operations over the Netherlands East Indies.^[2]

References

↑ YPKT – Port Keats (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 29 May 2014, Aeronautical Chart
↑ OzatWar website

Airports in the Northern Territory

Public airports	Alice Springs Ayers Rock Bathurst Island Borroloola Croker Island Darwin Elcho Island Garden Point Gove Groote Eylandt Hooker Creek Kalkgurung Lake Evella Maningrida Milingimbi Ngukurr Numbulwar Oenpelli Port Keats Ramingining Smith Point Snake Bay South Goulburn Island Tennant Creek

Private airports	Jabiru McArthur River MKT The Granites Victoria River Downs

Military airports	Darwin Tindal

Defunct airports	Batchelor Coomalie Creek Daly Waters Fenton Gorrie Gould Hughes Katherine Livingstone Long MacDonald Manbulloo Parap Pell Pine Creek Sattler Strauss

Related	New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Territories of Australia

Airports in bold have scheduled service

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Port Keats Airfield

World War II

See also

References