Airport details

RAAF Base Curtin

Derby, Australia Oceania

IATA DCN ICAO YCIN 1 runways
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Airport information

Dataset record
IATA
DCN
ICAO
YCIN
Elevation
300 ft / 91 m
Runways
1
Longest runway
10,003 ft / 3,049 m
Main surface
Asphalt
Timezone
Unknown
Coordinates
-17.5813999176, 123.82800293

Location

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Weather snapshot

Australia/Perth · Updated Sat 7 Nov, 11:00

Open-Meteo

Partly cloudy now, with temperatures around 26°C to 43°C (79°F to 110°F) today and up to 20% rain risk.

Current
Partly cloudy
Temperature
41°C
106°F
Humidity
22%
Wind
8 km/h 5 mph
Local time
11:11
Sunrise
05:03
Sunset
17:53

Today

Light drizzle

26°C to 43°C 79°F to 110°F

Rain 20%
Wind 17 km/h 10 mph

Sun

Light drizzle

26°C to 44°C 79°F to 112°F

Rain 49%
Wind 25 km/h 15 mph

Mon

Light drizzle

26°C to 40°C 78°F to 104°F

Rain 24%
Wind 20 km/h 13 mph

Airline service

Routes dataset

  • Air New Zealand 2 routes
  • Virgin Australia 2 routes

* Based on open route data and may be incomplete or outdated.

About

From Wikipedia

RAAF Base Curtin

RAAF Base Curtin, also sometimesRAAF Curtin(IATA:DCN, ICAO:YCIN) is a joint use Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base and civil airport located 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi) southeast of the town of Derby, Western Australia. As it is one of the RAAF's three bare bases, no RAAF units are permanently based at Curtin and it is maintained by a small caretaker staff during peacetime.

The base is named in honour of former prime minister John Curtin.

RAAF Curtin was the first new major military airfield to be built in Australia since World War II. Construction on the base began in 1983 and it was opened on 11 June 1988 by Prime Minister Bob Hawke. The 25,000-hectare (62,000-acre) base was activated twice by the RAAF between 1988 and 2013. It was activated again in 2016 as part of Exercise Northern Shield.

From the late 1990s the base operated as Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, an Australian Government immigration detention centre, which closed in September 20...

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RAAF Base Curtin

Country

Australia

Official name
Australia

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