Fact Box

History & Corporate Information

• Established 1940 as Airbase
• Private Owners since 2003
• Management team of 23 staff
• Easy access to main Sydney arterial roads M5, M7, Hume Highway
• Airport creates employment directly or indirectly for 6,000 people
• Community partner sponsoring many local organisations each year

Regulation & Compliance

• Regulated by Federal Government – Department of Infrastructure and Transport through the Airports Act 1996 regime

• Air traffic services supplied by Airservices Australia

• Pay in excess of $1.4million in council rates and ex gratia land tax each year to Bankstown City Council the Federal Govertment respectively

Aviation

• Fourth busiest Airport in Australia

• 245,000 movements in 2011

• Code 3C Airport – corporate jets, turbo props, twin engine and helicopters

Aviation Infrastructure

• Total aviation infrastructure –3 runways, multiple taxiways passenger terminal, hardstand, and grassed parking

• An Air Traffic Control tower – unlike other regional airports

• Total area of pavement is over 450,000 m2 across the two airports

• Lighting -2 runways and numerous taxiways have lighting

• Approx 550 lights and 10 km of cabling

Property

• Total Airport site is 313 hectares

• 180 businesses – aviation tenants & non-aviation tenants

• $31million in development since privatisation

• Total Area of Airport Owned Buildings 69,359 m2 excluding Boeing site

Infrastructure

• The Airport has a Road Network Pavement of 90,000 m2 and 800 m2 of Footpaths

• Road Network Kerb - excludes Nancy Ellis Leebold Drive - 10,000 lineal metres

• Mains Services with 13 substations and associated switchgear

• 5,872 metres of High Voltage cabling & 8,900 metres of low voltage cabling

• More than 40 distribution pillar-boxes

• 6,000 metres of sewer piping

• 8,000 metres of water piping including over 100 hydrants, 65 stop valves

• 4 Sewer pumping stations