page_title: Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
section_title: Transport hub
hierarchical_section_title: Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport / Transport hub
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the terminal building at Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba, Queensland.
context_page_description: Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport is an airport in Wellcamp, 8.4 nautical miles west from the CBD of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It was known as Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport until November 2017.
  The airport and an associated aviation and business park is the brainchild of the Wagner family, a business family prominent in the Toowoomba region. It is the first major greenfield public airport development in Australia since Melbourne Airport opened in 1970. It is also the first privately funded major airport in the country.
  The airport is rated at Code E and with its 2,870-metre long by 45-metre wide runway can handle aircraft the size and weight of the Boeing 747-400 and Boeing 747-8. The airport is estimated to have a catchment area of 344,000 people and in 2017 handled 157,000 passengers, making it the 33rd busiest regional airport in Australia annually.
context_section_description: The airport is placed to exploit the future development of transport and industry at Charlton. The new airport location is adjacent to the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, a proposed bypass of Toowoomba. The section of the bypass (between Charlton and Athol) passing the airport will be a single carriageway only.  The airport location is also near the planned Australian standard gauge inland rail corridor which would link Melbourne with Brisbane, thus providing a potential road-air-rail hub.
caption: The main terminal building.
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