page_title: Jandakot Airport
section_title: Natural environment
hierarchical_section_title: Jandakot Airport / Natural environment
caption_attribution_description: English: Jandakot Airport from an aircraft.
context_page_description: Jandakot Airport is an Australian general aviation airport located in Jandakot, Western Australia. Jandakot airport opened in 1963. From 1 July 1998, Jandakot Airport Holdings purchased a 50-year lease with a 49-year option to operate and maintain the airport including its conservation areas.
  Originally built on unproductive farm lands, it is now among residential suburbs in the south of the Perth metropolitan area, within the City of Cockburn, and just south of Leeming and west of Canning Vale.
  Jandakot Airport is "the busiest general aviation airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements". The airport recorded 208,778 aircraft movements in the fiscal year ending 30 June 2018, also making it the sixth-busiest civilian airport in Australia in that period as measured by aircraft movements. Indeed, the airport reported 275,506 aircraft movements in the fiscal year 2011, making it the busiest civilian airport in Australia in terms of aircraft movements in that financial year. Jandakot Airport has a theoretical operating capacity of 526,000 aircraft movements per annum, which could be reached "within the 20-year planning horizon of" the 2014 Jandakot Airport Master Plan.
context_section_description: Jandakot Airport covers 6.22 km² (2.40 sq mi) with 4 km² (1.5 sq mi) of Banksia woodlands; this includes 2.8 km² (1.1 sq mi) of conservation reserve. Within the airport boundaries 290 native flora species have been identified including the endangered Grand Spider Orchid (caladenia hueglii). Over 100 fauna species have also been identified. The Southern Brown Bandicoot and kangaroos can be seen feeding on the maintained areas of grassland around sunset most nights. Two sites of Aboriginal heritage land have been identified with the airport; both of these are included in the conservation reserve. These sites contain scattered small artifacts.
caption: Jandakot Airport and surroundings
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